Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) photos by Larry Jordan – the Rough-legged Hawk is a true arctic species having an extensive panboreal breeding range, with populations in taiga and tundra regions of both the Old World and the New World1. Green is their summer range, blue is winter. In North America this raptor breeds in arctic […]
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Compartiendo la sombra
Pájaro bastante común y muy fotografiado por nosotros, en ocasiones también es mi despertador porque muchas veces suelo despertarme con el canto de una bandadita que frecuenta el barrio en donde vivo y reciben al sol cantando entre cuatro o cinco perchando en el poste del frente de casa. Mientras recargábamos nuestras baterÃas en el […]
Ipacaá (Giant wood-Rail)
Tan concentrado estaba siguiendo a las Jacanas a través del visor de la cámara que me perdà a este Ipacaá caminando muy cerca del auto. Afortunadamente desde que hay dos cámaras en el grupo se divide un poco la tarea y lo que se me escapa a mi lo fotografÃa Willy.
Palmedes Swallowtail
Spring butterflies are starting to appear in SW Florida. This Palmedes Swallowtail (Paplilo palmedes) was seen patroling the woodline on the Seaboard Grade in the Babcock-Webb WMA in Punta Gorda on March 5, 2013. The Swamp Bay and Red Bay are it’s host plant, but this one was seen basking on Saw Palmetto.
Great Horned Owl
I think it’s the eyes–giant circular eyes–that get me about this bird. They are simply amazing birds to see, and I’m always amazed. Seen up close, they are pretty large. The owl in the above photo flew when I was quite near it (I hadn’t seen it until it flew), and then landed in a […]
White’s Thrush (Zoothera aurea toratugumi)
I haven’t been doing much photography since returning from the Kagoshima & East Hokkaido tour, but this morning’s weather report looked great and I’d heard reports of a White’s Thrush at Kawahara Lake. So I thought I’d take the chance to photograph it. The taxonomy of Zoothera dauma (Scaly Thrush) has been disputed for a […]
The Great spotted woodpecker
A mouse, a monkey! I wait for him in the morning, he arrives in the afternoon; I expect him on the right; he shows up on the left! As I align the lens on him, he rushes to the right. Anyhow, here he is!