On April 30, 2008 I was photographing Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) on the north beach of Fort De Soto when one of the birds started exhibiting a behavior that I had not seen in Black Skimmers before. There are times when the male Black Skimmer passes a fish, leaf or twig to the female skimmer […]
Category: Wildlife
Tarantula. Scorpion.
There are no time for words, my friends. No time! This tarantula is the second cutest one I’ve seen, I think. Yeah, second cutest. It’s a toss up though. They are all over the place at the field sites in Austin. All over. The bark scorpions are pretty much all around also, I kinda like […]
Tree Swallows and Their Nestlings
Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) are cavity nesters just like Bluebirds. If you are a Bluebird trail monitor, especially if your trail is near water, you are very likely to have Tree Swallows nesting in your nest boxes. Click on photos for full sized images. One of my Bluebird trails is at Lema Ranch, a facility […]
Very sad and bad news from the Okapi Conservation Project
Following the attack on Sunday morning by mai mai rebels on the Institute in the Congo for Conservation of Nature (ICCN) headquarters and Okapi Conservation Project base of operations in Epulu it was 48 hours later on Tuesday morning when the Congolese Army (FARDC) and Monusco (UN) troops finally took control of the area around […]
Brandon Night Visit
Each year around this time Dee and I like to take in a night visit to Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve near Coventry and amongst other things we love to go searching for Glow Worms. These amazing and fascinating little bio-luminescent creatures are great fun to find. Females have only a few weeks in which to […]
California Quail Female with Chicks
I took a trip into town a few days ago, mostly for garden supplies. On the way home with the car loaded with all kinds of stuff, I realized that I had forgotten to stop at the local feed store. I was only about a mile past the store so I turned around in the […]
Rifleman, Titipounamu Arcanthisitta chloris
Rifleman Sometimes called a “Bush Wren” they are not apparently a member of the wren family Riflemanare New Zealands smallest bird, and for me the most difficult to find. Partially because they are so small….. 6 or 7 gram, and at most 80 mm long. Males are bright green on the back, females a duller […]
Hitching a Ride – Grebe Chicks
Grebe chicks are showing up all over at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (aka Bear River National Wildlife Refuge) in northern Utah and they are just adorable to see and photograph. I have been seeing Clark’s, Pied-billed and Western Grebes with chicks but I haven’t gotten any close images of the Pied-billed Grebes with their […]