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Taking Flight
It takes a lot of patience to get a photo of a Great Horned Owl taking flight. When you’re sitting on a hillside on a warm spring day watching the sun set, the minutes tick by pretty quickly.
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Owl on Rock
I found this Great Horned Owl hanging out on its favorite rock again. It had flown down from its tree well before sunset this time, giving me an opportunity to capture it with the fading glow of the day reflecting off the hills in the background.
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Stacking Owls
These owls were kind of enough to line up in roughly the same focal plane just before sunset.
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The Chase
I rarely see Bobcats run. Seeing a Bobcat run in my general direction is especially rare. I’m not sure what caused it here. Urgent appointment with a gopher?
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Happy International Day of the Seal
Northern Elephant Seals are a huge conservation success story. They were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century, as a prized source of lubricant and lamp oil. They were believed extinct until an 1892 Smithsonian expedition found a small colony with eight individuals far off the coast of Mexico. To document this momentous find,
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On The Fence
Normally I don’t like photos of animals on barbed wire fences. In fact (dirty secret time) in most of my photos of a bird perched on a solitary fence post, I’ve carefully cloned out the barbed wire. But, I think the wire really ties this photo together. Hopefully, with the buyouts of the ranches at
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Standing Tall
I got a real bumper crop of Long-Tailed Weasels this month. This was the second weasel I saw on the same day!
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Home Sweet Home
Whenever possible, you want your photos to tell a story. Sometimes it’s a complicated story. Sometimes it’s very simple. This Long-Tailed Weasel lives in a hole in a grassy field. I was really pleased to get the weasel coming out of a well-defined hole in a reasonably sized dirt mound. Just the right amount of
