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Snowy Pika Scene
As I’ve written about a few times, I’m on a quest to photograph an American Pika in its winter habitat: on a snowy rock, with snowy mountain peaks in the background. This is my best version yet. I had visited this spot a week prior and got some decent shots of pikas in the snow,…
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Rock Wren
A Rock Wren foraging in front of the Eastern Sierra.
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Caracara
A Crested Caracara on a fence post is as much of a Patagonia cliche as a Red-Tailed Hawk on a fence post is here in California. With the fence line leading into foggy mountains, I was pretty happy with my version.
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Standing Tall
This Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel liked to rummage around for flowers and seeds before dashing up onto a high rock to eat while watching for predators, which made it easy to line up this photo with pines in the background.
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Morning Wren
A Cactus Wren pauses in the brief eruption of color preceding a desert sunrise.
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Snowy Wren
I usually associate Rock Wrens with places that are warm year round, but they’re actually found all the way up to 10,000 and as far north as British Columbia. These populations migrate downslope or south for the winter. This one must have just returned to the High Sierra, following the melting snow back to its…
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Emerging
An American Pika emerges from its talus home as it waits for the remaining snow to melt and the summer haying season to begin.
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Wren Friends
A couple of Cactus Wrens find their light on top of a rock as the sun rises over the Mojave Desert.
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Armadillo
Getting to see an armadillo was one of many highlights of my trip to Patagonia with @danieldietrichphoto. These guys are so shy and hard to photograph, but we stayed very still until it emerged from its burrow and scurried (safely) across the road. This is either a Pichi or a Big Hairy Armadillo, but I…
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Goofball
A Great-Horned Owl chick in a convenient perch. Not yet fledged in this photo, the owlet explored the area around the nest on foot. The chick and its sibling have now successfully fledged, the second year in a row I got to watch their parents raise a new family.