Convenient Perch
From Bison to Dung Beetles
Tallgrass Prairie, Kansas On our way to visit our grandkids in Minnesota this summer, we stopped at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, about 15 miles west of Emporia, Kansas. Prairie lands…
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Saguaro at Sunset
A Few Days in the Sonoran Desert
Although we live in the Chihuahuan desert here in Las Cruces, in April Penny and I decided to go the Sonoran Desert. The Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts are adjacent as…
Dove with Two Nestlings Ready to Fledge
Mourning Doves Living Dangerously
This post is about one of the most fascinating things I've photographed in a long time. And it happened over the course of about six weeks in our own backyard…
Sandhill Crane in Flight
Sandhill Cranes
Early winter is the time when the sandhill cranes and other waterbirds arrive in the southwest U.S. after they migrate from Canada and other points north. Bosque del Apache National…
Takeoff and Landing
Red-Winged Blackbirds In Flight
How I Photograph Birds in Flight One day in late June I noticed numerous Red-Winged Blackbirds flying and alighting in a field on an isolated gravel road near Winona, Minnesota.…