A Serendipitous American Kestrel Yesterday Morning It was almost like I called this bird out of the sky. Continue reading
Female Ring-necked Duck With Three Catch Lights It’s “only” a duck but she’s a pretty little duck. Continue reading
Black-billed Magpie Showing Off That Iridescence In my view iridescence nearly always enhances a magpie photo but the angle of light has to be just right for it to show up at all. Continue reading
Belted Kingfisher – Old Stubby-legs Those incredibly short legs can be problematic at times. Continue reading
A Rousing Peregrine Falcon I don’t believe I’ve ever been this close to a Peregrine Falcon as it roused. Continue reading
A Winter Bittern And A New Observation Tower At Bear River MBR A highly unusual winter bird and a new incarnation of a long-lost landmark made yesterday a good day at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Continue reading
American Coot – The Schoolyard Bully The apparent intent of this thug was to intimidate and terrorize the other coot. It worked. Continue reading
A Handsome Coot? And I’ll be damned. I think I’d even call this coot handsome. Or at least stately and dignified and that doesn’t happen every day with this species. Continue reading
Peregrine Falcon Coming At Me This part of my encounter with the falcon gave me a feeling for how a doomed duck must feel an instant before it meets its violent demise. Continue reading
Avian Potpourri – Three Species, Five Images A duck, a hawk and a heron. Typical of potpourri there’s not much of a unifying theme here except each of my subjects has feathers in common and all five images illustrate something of interest (for me at least). Continue reading
Male Common Goldeneye In Flight And Flaring To Land Goldeneyes in flight are a work in progress for me but I think I’m making some headway. Continue reading
A Peregrine Falcon And A Frozen Coot Yesterday morning went from bust to boom at the very last minute possible and it was a Peregrine Falcon that saved my bacon. Continue reading
A New Year’s Lesson From A Barn Owl Before we can photograph owls we have to find them and this wise ol’ Barn Owl taught me a valuable lesson in that regard. Continue reading
My Best Photo(s) Yet Of A Grebe Amputating A Crayfish Claw I’ve photographed this feeding behavior before but those photos have never been this clear and detailed. Continue reading
A Trio Of Common Mergansers In Flight A six photo sequential series as three mergansers were about to land on the water. Continue reading