Photography, Nature, Birds, the Environment, and . . .
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Aug 30th, 2010
Richardson’s Ground Squirrel (click image to view larger) On a cool morning at Montana’s Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, this Richardson’s Ground (Urocitellus richardsonii), found itself a nice, colorful, lichen-covered rock to soak up some rays from the sun.
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Aug 23rd, 2010
American Pika (click image to view larger) You can never see too many pics of Pikas, so for this week’s post an American Pika (Ochotona princeps) from Jasper National Park with a mouthful of winter food to be stored. They’re so cute it’s almost not fair to the other Lagomorphs . . .
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Jul 19th, 2010
Bighorn Lambs (click image to view larger) An image taken near the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area in Montana on our road trip in 2006, this pair were part of a flock of Bighorn Sheep encountered on our adventure that day. I’ve always liked this photo because of the way these two lambs appear to [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Jun 28th, 2010
Nursing Pronghorn Fawns – Bryce Canyon National Park (click image to view larger) Last Thursday morning I was lucky enough to catch these two Pronghorn fawns out in the meadow just south of the Bryce Canyon Visitor Center while they were nursing. About 4 weeks old, they are foraging on their own, too, but a [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on May 31st, 2010
Pronghorn Doe with Fawns – Bryce Canyon National Park (click image to view larger) Even though the weather doesn’t always seem to be in agreement, it is Spring here on the Paunsagunt Plateau. I’ve seen a few flowers that bloom early starting to appear, saw a Red Crossbill fledgling begging to be fed by its [...]
Posted in Mammals, Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday on May 22nd, 2010
Sea Otter – Monterey, California (click image to view larger) Yesterday was “Endangered Species Day” and, to wrap up the week, here’s a Sea Otter from my archives. Photographed in a kelp bed near Monterey, the Southern, or California, Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) is a threatened species that lives along the Central California coast. [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on May 17th, 2010
Tule Elk – San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, California (click image to view larger) Today’s post is “one from the archives”, and image I made B.D. (before digital) on a California trip when I was making the transition from auto racing photography to birds and wildlife – and still using slide film. San Luis National [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on May 10th, 2010
Alaskan Brown Bear – Katmai National Park (click image to view larger) Yesterday was, of course, Mother’s Day, and I hope you were nice to your Mom – or else she might be sneering like this one! Though I really don’t think this Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) was angry, she was just keeping [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on May 3rd, 2010
Abert’s Squirrel – Kaibab National Forest, Arizona (click image to view larger) Of all the North American tree squirrels, the Abert’s Squirrel (Sciurus aberti) is almost certainly the coolest looking member of the family. There are known colloquially as “tassel-eared squirrels” because of their long ear tufts seen with their winter coat. They can be [...]
Posted in Mammals, Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Apr 26th, 2010
Desert Bighorn Ram – Zion National Park (click image to view larger) Along the drive through the eastern side of Zion National Park it pays to be on the lookout for Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) scampering around the domes of Navajo Sandstone. This subspecies, found in the deserts of California, Arizona, & southwestern [...]
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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