Category Archives: Bird Photography

Back to the Burrow

Today, I’m featuring an image that was captured at the Wichita Mountains NWR in southwest Oklahoma, a number of years ago. While photographing in the early morning, I saw this Burrowing Owl returning to his underground den, with nesting material in his beak (can you spot this owl’s mate, with only the head peering out […]

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Catch of the Day

Today, I’m featuring an image that was captured at the Loxahatchee NWR in southeast Florida, a number of years ago. While photographing the many water pools of the refuge, this Great Blue Heron proudly displayed his recent catch: This image was captured pre-2004, when I was still shooting 35mm slides. I recently began converting some […]

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Scattering At Sunset

Today, I’m featuring two more recently converted digital files (from a 35mm slide). These images were captured at the Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) in northwest Missouri: When I lived in the Kansas City area, I visited this wonderful refuge often. And many of the trips included outrageous sunrises/sunsets, like the one […]

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You Know It’s Winter When …

… you see Bald Eagles sitting peacefully next to other eagles! This image was captured pre-2004, when I was still shooting 35mm slides, along the Mississippi River near Davenport, Iowa. I recently began converting some of those slides to digital files. It will take some time to convert my many slides to digital, but I […]

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Beautiful ‘Greenies’

Today’s post features an image I captured on one of the Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) pools, in northwest Missouri, a few years ago. Mallard drakes (males) are brilliantly colored when you can find them in good light. These Mallard drakes were cruising one of the refuge pools in beautiful, early morning […]

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Spring Fever … Already?

Today’s post features one of my favorite warblers, the Magnolia Warbler. Captured at Magee Marsh in northern Ohio, this beautiful male was flitting about the trees as it fed and rested, before crossing Lake Erie for his summer home in Canada: Magee Marsh is a wonderful place to see and photograph migrating warblers in the […]

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