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Earth Day 2013

By |April 22nd, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Coyotes, Dragonflies, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Reddish Egrets, Roosevelt Wetlands, Utah, Wildlife, Zion National Park|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I wanted to share these images because today is Earth Day.

Yellow-headed Blackbirds Are Back In Numbers

By |April 19th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Utah, Yellow-headed Blackbirds|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Yellow-headed Blackbirds are filling the marshy areas of Utah with their odd mechanical calls once again as the males court the females for their annual spring fling.

Great Horned Owls and Horned Larks – Birds with Tufts

By |April 15th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Great Horned Owls, Horned Larks, Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Great Horned Owls and Horned Larks are species of birds that have tufts that I photograph regularly here in Utah.

Thinking Pink – Birds, Sky and Flowers

By |April 8th, 2013|Categories: Auckland, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Roseate Spoonbills, Scenics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I'm not sure why I wanted to do a post using images with pinks but here they are, a flower, a bird and pink kissed clouds.

Springtime Pronghorns on Antelope Island

By |April 1st, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Pronghorn, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

These Pronghorn images were taken a few years ago during the spring and I thought I would share them this morning partly because the yellow flowers in these images; Gray's Biscuitroot, have just started to bloom this year.

Palmlix.com’s Thieving Owner also owns A-GC.com

By |March 22nd, 2013|Categories: Copyright Infringement, Copyright Issues|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

In case you hadn't noticed, scraper sites like these tick me off. Our images are copyrighted the moment we take them and they are not to be used without our permission or authorization.

Photograph but don’t touch – Wildlife Ethics

By |March 20th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Red Foxes, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I do hope that non-photographers and the general public know that behavior like this is an exception and that ethical photographers would not have gone up and petted the Sandhill Cranes.

Burrowing Owls draw me in

By |March 19th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Burrowing Owls, Owls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last week I spotted my first Burrowing Owl of the year, it was a distance away and I didn't take any images of it but I had to do a wiggle dance in my seat because I was excited seeing one again.

Marbled Godwit on Fort De Soto’s north beach

By |March 8th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Marbled Godwits, Shorebirds|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Several years ago while I was photographing at Fort De Soto's beautiful north beach I saw a Marbled Godwit flying in with a dark Tubeworm in its bill and took a few images of it from a distance.

Isn’t it time for a Wildlife Conservation Stamp?

By |March 7th, 2013|Categories: Bald Eagles, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Conservation, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, Pronghorn, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Short-eared Owls, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This is a win/win proposal for the National Wildlife Refuge System and for everyone who visits them. For every person who is concerned about the future of out National Wildlife Refuges and for every organization who supports conservation of our public lands and the nation's wildlife.

Standing up against Google’s new Image Search and the copyright issues involved – Class action lawsuit

By |February 26th, 2013|Categories: Copyright Infringement, Copyright Issues|Tags: , , , , , , |

What do we need to do to become involved with a class action law suit against Google for the changes they made to their Image Search?

Coyote on a snow-covered hillside

By |February 26th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday I spotted this lone Coyote walking in the snow on a hillside on Antelope Island State Park and stopped to take some images of it before it disappeared into the brush.

A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk fly by

By |February 21st, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Just a simple juvenile Red-tailed Hawk this morning that I took last year on Antelope Island State Park as it flew past me with the dark Farmington complex rocks in the background.

The Pale Male Coyote And His Injured Mate

By |February 19th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Coyotes, Utah, Wildlife|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday I spotted a Coyote on Antelope Island, it was down a slope near a herd of Pronghorn and not in the best of light. I noticed almost right away that the Coyote was limping rather badly.

Breeding plumage Tricolored Heron in flight

By |February 5th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Tricolored Herons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

I've always liked this image of a Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage that flew past me while I sat in the water of a tidal lagoon near a Spartina marsh in Florida. Warm water, a sea breeze, birds, nature and photography.

Google has become the biggest image scraper of the Millennium

By |February 1st, 2013|Categories: Birds, Chukars, Copyright Issues|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

You might wonder why I have used this title but since the 25th of January changes have been made to Google Image Search that have infuriated webmasters, photographers, artists and many more.

Snowy Coyote, Chukar and Antelope Island State Park

By |January 29th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Chukars, Coyotes, Davis County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday when I saw this running Chukar image on my camera LCD in mid-stride and mid-air I had to chuckle because it looks something like a feathered Nerf football some one tossed across the snow.

The answer to the Gull and Tern Quiz is…

By |January 28th, 2013|Categories: American Herring Gulls, Bird ID, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Gulls, Laughing Gulls, Royal Terns|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The majority of you voted for the correct answer: Juvenile Herring Gull, 1st winter Laughing Gull and Royal Tern

I dare the news to report on the senseless slaughter of Coyotes

By |January 18th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Conservation, Coyotes, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I dare news agencies to write factual articles about the inhumane practice of slaughtering Coyotes which has been proven by science to be largely ineffective in controlling their population, to observe the Coyotes being blown up in their dens and to witness the suffering of these animals when they are caught in traps.

Changes to On The Wing Photography

By |January 11th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Copyright Issues, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Because of image theft I have made some changes to my blog, one of the first that will be noticed by people who have subscribed to my blog is that I will only be using a summary for my published posts from now on.

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