The male Painted Bunting is a remarkably pretty bird and one that I enjoyed seeing and photographing when I last visited the USA and specifically Florida in January last year. I had returned to Palm Beach County hoping to improve on the Painted Bunting photographs that I had taken on a previous visit. I had […]
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Sandhill Crane Named Audubon California’s Bird of the Year
Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis)were once common throughout the west and especially in the California Central Valley. However their populations declined drastically as a result of unregulated hunting and habitat loss during settlement of the region. In California, the breeding population was reduced to fewer than five pairs by the 1940s. Fortunately, all populations of Sandhill […]
The Dunnock or Hedge Accentor
Prunella modularis – Passeriformes – Prunellidae – Quite shy this season, this fellow finally showed up in the garden! Accenteur mouchet – Qu’il est timide cette année, mais le voila enfin!
Ritje Oostvaardersdijk
Enige weken terug was ik onderweg van Amsterdam naar Lelystad en had wat ruimte ingepland voor het maken van foto’s als de gelegenheid zich voor deed. Normale mensen nemen de A6 om er te komen. Ik ga echter altijd over de Oostvaardersdijk vanaf Almere langs de Oostvaardersplassen en Lepelaarplassen. Het was deze dag een beetje […]
Season Wishes
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2013. Be happy and stay healthy.
They’re everywhere!
I’ve been overstimulated with the yard birds lately. We actually got some gnarly rain recently and there have been some good warbler and sparrow flocks who have been pretty pumped about it. Some kind of bug is laying eggs on fenceposts right now and I’ve noticed the warblers are chowing down on the eggs all […]
Tooth Walker…
A young walrus bull (Odobenus rosmarus) cautiously approaches as I lay on a rocky beach of Nordaustlandet. The scientific name of a walrus, Odobenus, comes from a combination of old Greek words: “odous” or tooth and “bainos” meaning walk. Often, a walrus will use his tusks to pull his large mass along the ice or […]
Do You Like Wolves? Want to Help Save Them?
Only 58 Gray Wolves survive in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico. We can’t afford to let a single one be killed. Wolf numbers are so low that at this point we’re fighting to save the entire Mexican gray wolf subspecies from going extinct. Due to shooting, trapping and political opposition by the livestock […]