Black Backed Gull. Apart from heavy forest I doubt there are many places in New Zealand without a Black Backed Gull somewhere nearby. I grew up on a sheep farm, and without doubt these adaptable gulls were our biggest single pest. Preying on any cast sheep and on just born lambs. In both cases targeting […]
Green Heron
At West Yarmouth wetland, near Sparta, Ontario. The bird showed up after 3 hours of sitting in a blind.
Blue-tailed Bee-eaters
Here are a few images of blue-tailed bee-eaters. These bee-eaters were photographed on the banks of River Cauvery in Karnataka, India. For more images: Angad Achappa Photography
Lunch Time in Coopersville
In August of 2011, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a family of Coopers Hawks nesting in the trees 5 minutes away from my home in Irvine, California. Over the next six weeks, I witnessed and photographed all kinds of interactions between the mother and her young. However, the feeding process is what captivated […]
Whiskered delight
This spring news emerged in the Dutch Birding scene that in the northern part of the Netherlands a colony of beautiful Whiskered Terns had formed in a new estableshed nature reserve. Whiskered Tern is a scarce vagrant bird in the Netherlands with only a few reported breeding pairs in the last 100 years, so a […]
Caterpillars have more muscles than you.
My internet connection is sort of fake right now, so there’s a good chance this won’t even show up. These guys are from earlier in the season when the caterpillars were out of control and taking over. Can’t tell you what kind they are but I kinda like ’em.
Best Photo of the Week Ended 21 Jul 2012
We are pleased to present the winners of our most recent “Best Photo of the Week” Competition. First Prize goes toFabiola Forns for “Cleaning house”, Second Prize to Rick Lieder for “String Theory” and the Third Prize to Jefferson Silva for “Sharp-Tailed Grass Tyrant” (see images below with links to the original articles). The voting […]
Yellow Breasted Tit, Piropiro. Petroica macrocephala
Yellow Breasted Tit Yesterday I was over at Mill Creek and came across a male Yellow Breasted Tit. These are our second smallest bird, after the Rifleman. We see them throughout our forest, but most often on the forest edges and on Ulva Island particularly working along the sandy beach edge. They are insect feeders, […]