Author Archives: James Braswell

Professional nature photographer, specializing in capturing animal behaviors, wildflowers and scenics. Member of NANPA, Great Plains Nature Photographers and Missouri Prairie Foundation. Also a Master Gardener.

Merry Christmas 2023!

Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas … and may you have a Peace-filled 2024! (From a winter visit to Yellowstone NP, a few years ago)

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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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Coyote On the Move

Today’s post features a previously unpublished photo that I captured in December 2005. While hiking around the Amarugia Highlands CA in Cass County, Missouri, this coyote bolted out of the treeline and ran across the frosty trail: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 1D Mark 2 camera body Canon 100mm-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens Handheld, with IS “On” […]

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Monarch Egg Hatching – Video

Today’s post has been a few days in the making. Back in September when the Monarch migration was underway, I photographed a lot of Monarch caterpillars and butterflies in their busy, nonstop activities. I collected several Monarch eggs from the church butterfly garden and set up a “nursery/studio” in my dining room. One of my […]

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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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Late Season Brown-eyed Susans

Today’s post features a few, end-of-season Brown-eyed Susan wildflowers. While recently hiking some woodland trails at Fiery Fork Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks), a few Brown-eyed Susan wildflowers were hanging on for dear life. As readily seen in this image, the tips of the flower petals were losing their color as they began to […]

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