There are times when the birds I want to photograph are too far away and then there are times when the birds get too close, this Red-tailed Hawk got too close.
I was delighted to find quite a few Sandhill Cranes in the Centennial Valley of Montana last week and this pair was close enough to photograph.
A Vesper Sparrow caught my eye last week as it fluttered and fluffed on an old barb wire fence near the road and I just had to photograph it.
For three days I had great fun photographing two very obliging Swainson's Hawk juveniles at the east end of the Centennial Valley and by obliging I mean they were very approachable.
Just a short Merlin post today from my Montana trip, a teaser for the images I will soon be posting.
This is another image I came across last week and wondered why I hadn't processed it because I don't have many Little Blue Heron portraits in my portfolio.
Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management area is a great place to see Black-necked Stilts during the breeding season and to see their young later on.
I was covered in mud after laying in the mudflat to photograph this Wilson's Plover and I didn't mind a bit.
Snowy Egret at dawn next to the Gulf of Mexico in Pinellas County, Florida
American Oystercatchers are specialized in that their diet consists of bivalves and they do use that flashy orange bill to pry some of them open.
Shorebirds were my bird photography spark birds and they ignited the fire I have within me to go out into the field as often as possible to photograph all wild birds
I think all raptors have a ferocious appearance but this Ferruginous Hawk definitely looked ferocious to me yesterday right after it lifted off from its perch high on a pole.
Six years ago this morning I was photographing birds at Fort De Soto County Park and I wanted to share a few images and memories of that day.
I was ready when I thought this Western Meadowlark was going to take flight but instead the meadowlark took a flying leap towards the ground.
Ring-billed Gulls are fairly common but as with any common bird I believe that they can be uncommonly beautiful.
The reason Utah got uglier is that today Crow hunting killing season begins for the first time in the state so the day is already off on a bad start.
I wonder if these two juvenile Red-tailed Hawks will hang around for the winter, I sure hope so.
Photographing hummingbirds in the wild can be daunting and fast paced, so fast paced that there are times I don't often have time to properly ID them in the field.
Yesterday the light wasn't great in the morning but I did get out to take some images an Antelope Island and there were plenty of pollinators out and about.
In March of this year I spent several days photographing Sandhill Cranes in southern Utah where the light and the weather could rapidly change.
I had an opportunity to photograph this juvenile Black-necked Stilt as it rested along the auto tour route at the refuge.
I worked up two older Brown Pelican images to share this morning taken at Fort De Soto in 2009 and 2008.
These words are as powerful and thought provoking today as they were 46 years ago.
These two White Ibis images were taken 19 frames apart and the color of the water changed dramatically as the ibis and I moved north
American Kestrels are year round residents in Utah and when the cold sets in they are less skittish and will allow closer approaches.
When taking any photograph it is possible to be photobombed and I have had my share of those including these two bird images.
I came across this diminutive Least Sandpiper while photographing Greater Yellowlegs at a tidal lagoon at Fort De Soto's north beach in the fall of 2008.
I've compiled a medley of images this morning of bees, moths and hummingbirds that I have photographed this past week to share this morning.
I wanted to post a shorebird today that I haven't posted in a while so I picked this image where the late afternoon Dunlin gets the worm
This Rufous Hummingbird had a favorite perch that looked out over its favorite patch of Rocky Mountain Bee Plant.