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American White Pelican lifting off

By |October 19th, 2013|Categories: American White Pelicans, Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This American White Pelican was taking off from a pond near where I live in Salt Lake County and I happened to click the shutter when its wings were extended upwards and when its feet had just slapped the water

Greater Yellowlegs and Copyright Watermarks

By |October 4th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Issues, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Yellowlegs, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Which copyright watermark should I use? The small one that doesn't detract from the Greater Yellowlegs or the larger one that would make it harder for image thieves to use?

Female Long-billed Curlew in a Florida lagoon

By |September 28th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Long-billed Curlews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

It has been another very long week so I thought I'd post a female Long-billed Curlew because of her very long bill but unlike the way my week went this curlew is graceful, elegant and serene.

Reddish Egret hunting along the Gulf Coast of Florida

By |September 16th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Reddish Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Recently I posted images of a Tricolored Heron and a Black-bellied Plover where I wrote that I enjoyed images that include habitat, the same could be said about this photo of a Reddish Egret hunting on the shoreline of the Gulf Coast.

Waves and a Forster’s Tern

By |September 3rd, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Forster's Terns, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The nonbreeding Forster's Tern in these two images is the same bird and the images were taken ten frames and a few seconds apart as the tern stood on the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico in Florida.

American Black Bear Surprise

By |July 28th, 2013|Categories: American Black Bears, Deer Lodge County, Montana|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I had been looking at the shoreline where the tree line comes down to the river when I saw what appeared to be a large dark boulder move only the "boulder" had legs and the face of a Black Bear!

Western Grebe at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

By |July 12th, 2013|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah, Western Grebes|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The other day when I photographed the Black-crowned Night Heron at Bear River National Wildlife Refuge I also photographed some Clark's and Western Grebes, I found these two images of this Western Grebe interesting and wanted to post them.

Five years ago today at Fort De Soto

By |July 6th, 2013|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Egrets, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Five years ago today I headed to the north beach of Fort De Soto County Park despite knowing that there were looming storms off of the coast hanging just off shore over the Gulf of Mexico and I am glad that I did because the light that day on the beach was exquisite.

Laughing Gulls in breeding and nonbreeding plumage

By |June 29th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Both of these Laughing Gull images were taken at Fort De Soto County Park's north beach in Florida, the image above shows a Laughing gull in nonbreeding plumage that was taken in September of 2008.

Tricolored Heron in Breeding Plumage

By |June 23rd, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Tricolored Herons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I was digging through my image files yesterday and came across a series of Tricolored Heron images that I had never edited from a May morning in 2009 when I was photographing birds at Fort De Soto's north beach.

Bathing Beauty… er… California Gull

By |June 5th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, California Gulls, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Okay, I admit it. I think gulls are beautiful and this California Gull sure looked that way bathing! Look at those bright white feathers, the dark sparkling eyes rimmed in red, the darker contrasting gray feathers, the color and shape of the bill. What's not to like about that?

Tricolored Herons Times Three

By |May 26th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Tricolored Herons|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I actually like the backgrounds in each of these images, all of them show the habitat that Tricolored Herons might be found in and highlight the birds too.

Big, Beautiful American White Pelicans

By |May 24th, 2013|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge there were two American White Pelicans that were close enough to photograph as they floated on the Bear River, it was a cloudless morning so the river was a gorgeous blue which always sets off the whites of these big, beautiful birds.

Adult and juvenile White Ibis

By |May 20th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, White Ibises|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

White Ibis can be strange looking birds to people who have never seen them before, they have soft, sky blue eyes, skinny legs, long necks and a bill that could be compared to Jimmy Durante's nose.

Ospreys of Flaming Gorge

By |May 18th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Hawks, Eagles, Ospreys and Vultures, Ospreys, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Last year at about this same time these Ospreys were busy building their nest while this year they were already sitting on eggs at Flaming Gorge.

Nesting time for Barn Swallows

By |May 9th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Barn Swallows, Birds, Davis County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Barn Swallows probably built adobe homes long before humans every did, they use mud as plaster to form their nests and the rain that fell the night before and yesterday morning created puddles that the Barn Swallows were using to get the mud they need for their nests.

Bird Sampler for April 28 through May 4, 2013

By |May 4th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Burrowing Owls, Canada Geese, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Killdeer, Swallows, Utah, Western Grebes, Western Meadowlarks|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I wanted to share a sampler of bird images that I have taken over the past week in Davis and Box Elder Counties.

Ruddy Turnstone and a Laughing Gull

By |April 18th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Laughing Gulls, Pinellas County, Ruddy Turnstones|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Five years ago today I was laying in the warm wet sands of Fort De Soto County Park's north beach as the salty water from the Gulf of Mexico soaked my skin while photographing a Ruddy Turnstone doing what they do best, turning things.

Brown Pelicans on the Gulf of Mexico

By |February 20th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Brown Pelicans, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

The forecast is calling for snow today and there is already a heavy cloud cover so looked back through my files and found some Brown Pelican images taken on a warm February morning in Florida to post today.

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