Yearly Archives: 2011


A Rare Winter Visitor

How good at bird identification are you? Can you identify this recent visitor I found at Squaw Creek NWR in northwest Missouri?           If you guessed “Ibis”, you are correct. But is this a juvenile White-Faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi) or a juvenile Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)? There seems to be an […]

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Squaw Creek Bald Eagles, Part 2

In this second, and final post of the Squaw Creek Bald Eagles, I am sharing some flight shots of the eagles at the refuge. Flight shots are always at the top of my list of “To Do” things when photographing birds, so I’m always looking for in-flight possibilities. I saw this adult during my first […]

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Squaw Creek Bald Eagles, Part 1

Today’s post includes some bald eagle images I made while at Squaw Creek NWR, photographing the Trumpeter Swans. Squaw Creek is know for the migrating waterfowl counts; Snow Geese numbers often reach 500,000 or more during November/early December. And with the increased waterfowl counts, comes the migrating Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus):     Immature Bald […]

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Poetry in Motion

Today’s post includes images made during my recent trip to Squaw Creek NWR, in northwestern Missouri. This Trumpeter Swan cygnet is the same cygnet I previously posted about (the single swan, in a refuge pool all by himself). As he preened away, he abruptly stopped, arched upward and flapped his wings in a way only […]

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Fun Friday: Glasses, Who Me?

Today’s Fun Friday post is a closeup image of a Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) with an interesting look, made during my recent trip to Squaw Creek NWR:           Online-Photography-Classes.com    

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Northern Harriers

During my recent visit to Squaw Creek NWR, I was amazed at the number of Northern Harriers (Circus cyaneus) flying about the refuge. Most of the time, there were multiple harriers gliding low over the open fields and marshes. Several times I looked up and saw harriers flying overhead:           Tomorrow […]

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