Yup, that’s what I said.
I took this shot nine years ago and never opened the image until last night (I’m probably going to catch hell from readers for that…). It had three surprises waiting for me when I finally saw it full screen.
I can often thank the uropygial gland of birds for providing me with some interesting poses.
Chipping Sparrow, Sage Thrasher and Northern Mockingbird. And it’s an attractive perch too so at first glance one might assume these photos had been set up. They weren’t.
Some folks don’t get very excited about Tundra Swans. I do, they’re damned impressive and elegant creatures.
In a recent blog post I bellyached about driving 240 miles over five hours and not finding a single cooperative bird. I sure didn’t have that problem yesterday at Farmington.
There are still some beautiful fall colors in the valley, especially when they’re bathed in warm morning or evening light, and late yesterday afternoon I actually succeeded in capturing some of them in the background of this four image series of a juvenile Double-crested Cormorant in flight.
At first I wasn’t sure why I like this shot as much as I do – after all it has at least two noticeable “flaws”.
A bird potpourri of sorts, just to give you a feeling for some of the other birds I’ve been photographing in the last ten days.
There are no easy answers for the dilemma of barbed wire and its effects on wildlife and even domestic animals, especially if you’re a farmer or rancher. But we can certainly improve our track record if we realize there’s a problem. A big one.
In my opinion this is the cutest baby mammal of any species I’ve ever photographed.
