Photography, Nature, Birds, the Environment, and . . .
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Sep 1st, 2010
Buntings (5 images in album) (click image to view album) There are five species of Cardinaline buntings* that occur in North America, two of which are found only along the Mexican Border – Varied Bunting and Blue Bunting. Of the three that are regular breeders within the lower 48 states, featured here are two, Indigo [...]
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 Butterflies, Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday on Aug 28th, 2010
Butterflies (7 images in album) (click image to view album)As I was sitting around enjoying my coffee this morning I was trying to think of something for today’s post and I settled on butterflies. As guess that is real “serendipity,” right? Whatever strikes me as a good idea at the moment. There are seven images [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 25th, 2010
Woodpeckers (6 images in album) (click image to view album) This week’s edition of Wings showcases 6 species of woodpeckers from my collection of avian images. We begin with a female Downy Woodpecker feeding a nestling, and end with a Pileated Woodpecker doing the same. In between are a male Red-bellied Woodpecker, Arizona Woodpecker (the [...]
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 Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth on Aug 21st, 2010
Yosemite (5 images in album) (click image to view album) A collection of five photos from earlier in the decade from a couple of trips to Yosemite National Park. In fact, 3 of them (Half Dome sunset, El Capitan, and the Bridal Veil Rainbow) are from before digital, I’m guessing circa 2001 or so. It’s [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 18th, 2010
Bald Eagles (6 images in album) (click image to view album) This week I offer up a collection of 6 images from my trips to Homer, Alaska in 2005 and 2006 to photograph Bald Eagles. Those were good times. There are a lot of superlatives I could use to describe Bald Eagles: amazing, majestic, beautiful, [...]
Posted in Mammals on Monday, Nature Photography on Aug 16th, 2010
Grizzly Bear – Tongass National Forest, Alaska (click image to view larger) This is an image I made returning from spending a little time at the Fish Creek Bear Viewing Area in Hyder, Alaska back in August of 2006. This Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) was just off the side of the road peeking out [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth on Aug 14th, 2010
Colorful Rocks (click image to view larger) In the southern region of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – east of Kanab just off U.S. Highway 89 – is a area featuring colorful rocks near the Pareah Townsite. Triassic in age, the banded rocks are of the Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle Formation, quite a [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Wings on Wednesday on Aug 11th, 2010
Black-chinned Hummingbird (6 images in album) (click image to view album) Last week’s Wings post featured hummingbirds and last week, on the same days I was photographing the Utah Prairie Dogs featured in Monday’s mammals post, I also spent some time sitting by my hummingbird feeders. I figure you can never see too many hummingbirds, [...]
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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