So many of us grew up with Wiley Coyote doing everything under the sun to catch the quick Roadrunner. As a child, I used to watch the coyote develop elaborate plans to catch the roadrunner for a quick meal, only to have things backfire and leaving the coyote in a “lost again” situation. Well, in […]
Category: Wildlife
Airborne & Desperate
Two molls bicker, a friendship ruptures, airborne and desperate, doing whatever they can to stay one step ahead of the law. • Sparrow | Passer domesticus
A Cooperative Loggerhead Shrike juvenile
From all appearances it has been a great nesting season for the Loggerhead Shrikes (Lanius ludovicianus) on Antelope Island State Park, it seems everywhere I look there are numerous juvenile Shrikesperched on bushes near rather harried looking adults. Yesterday while photographing and adult Shrike I noticed some movement out of the corner of my eye […]
Cottontail Rabbit
I photographed this little Cottontail Rabbit yesterday on Antelope Island State Park. Black-tailed Jackrabbits are far more common on the island so I was tickled to see this Cottontail near the hay barn. The Cottontail was nibbling on fresh grass shoots that were emerging from the straw near the barn. Mia
Waxing and Waning ~ The World Around Us ~ Bluebird Broods
There is plenty of spinning, tilting and turning in our vast universe . . . as our world wobbles its way around the sun and our moon waxes and wanes . . . mirroring that center fiery sphere . . . while it sails along its own path marking our monthly ways. Luminosity of a […]
Daily Dose of Cute
Jill Wussow Photography
Lesser Kestrel – Falco naumanni
The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) is closely related to the Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). Their European distribution extends from the Iberian peninsula in the west, through most Mediterranean countries (including some North African countries) and into the Middle East. Their global distribution is greater the further east one travels, extending to northern Mongolia and on […]
Calling male Long-billed Curlew
I haven’t heard the Long-billed Curlews (Numenius americanus) calling for several weeks here in northern Utah and I already miss hearing them. I photographed this calling male the second week of May out on a grassy flat on Antelope Island State Park. Long-billed Curlews are generally silent away from the breeding grounds, I never heard […]