Weka (Woodhen) – Weka, note the beak. I have seen one dispatch a large rat with a single strike Spend anytime in New Zealand forest and you will surely come across a weka. Flightless, agressivly omniverous and forever hungry they are the “wide boys” on our forest floors. Insects and forest invertibrates are their “bread […]
Bald Eagle Close Up – 4 Year Old
A few years ago I had some wonderful photo ops with this 4-year-old Bald Eagle at Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area, it often perched on an old wooden pole by the boat launch (before they stuck a bat house on the pole it was a favorite for raptors, I hope the bat house rots and […]
Back to La Janda
Aplogies for the delay in writing my updates but I have been extremely busy tour leading during May. I flew to Corsica at the beginning of the month and had a great tour with friends on this fantastic Mediterranean island. (I’ll post photos and a trip report of this tour later). From Corsica I flew […]
Unruly Buds
Her story lost in a chain of plot twists, she makes a sharp turn past unruly buds into a theme park of cool light. • Eastern black carpenter ant – Camponotus pennsylvanicus
When nature conservation can be joined with aesthetical considerations
For people interested by this odonate family, you know that the Calopteryx specie is very fragile and easily destroyed by the agricultural treatments. Here in Switzerland, they are legal recommendations for agricultural workers about the moment to spray your treatment with insecticide, you can’t make it when bees are out for example on fruit trees, […]
Long-billed Curlew in Cheatgrass
Cheatgrass is invasive but I sure think it can be pretty especially with a lovely bird amongst it like this male Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) that I photographed on Antelope Island State Park recently. Cheatgrass is lacy and delicate looking, there can be a slight reddish/pink casts to the stems and seedheads and it flutters […]
Birding in Brazil – third of four days photographing in Serra da Canastra National Park
The first two days were very nice, with several lifers photographed. But this third day kept the best emotions. The goal was to leave São João Batista and go towards the entrance of Sacramento, and therefore we would cover virtually the entire park. Early in the morning we saw some interesting animals, like the Yellow-faced […]
Snowy Egret – Moody Blues
Yesterday I posted a Snowy Egret in flight in what many bird photographers would call good light and the image had wonderful dynamics because of the action of the bird. This Snowy Egret image was taken just after the sun had risen above the horizon in about the same location as the egret image I […]