This is another of my favourites from our trip to the Pedernales Falls State Park bird blind a couple of weekends ago. This is an adult male house finch...
A mother capuchin monkey (cebus capucinus) with her baby in Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica.
Let’s finish this week of birds with one of the most commonly-seen (or, at least, most commonly noticed) central Texas birds. This is a male Northern...
A female ladder-backed woodpecked (Dryobates scalaris) seen at Pedernales Falls State Park, Texas on March 17th, 2018. I don’t know the mating habits...
A black-crested titmouse (baeolophus atricristatus) seen at Pedernales Falls State Park, Texas on March 17th, 2018.
A male house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) seen at Pedernales Falls State Park near Johnson City, Texas on March 17th, 2018.
We spent some time this weekend visiting the bird blind at Pedernales Falls State Park. While we were there, a few interesting visitors arrived including...
Cholla cacti are a very common sight across the high plains of New Mexico. This one, seen backlit just before sunset, was in the village of El Dorado near...
A red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) seen in the Rainmaker Forest Preserve near Quepos, Costa Rica.
A Purple-Throated Mountain Gem (lampornis calolaemu) hummingbird in flight at Selvatura Park near Monteverde, Costa Rica.
I had some fun playing with my macro lens in the hummingbird garden at Selvatura Park in Costa Rica. This Scaly-Breasted Hummingbird (phaeochroa cuvierii)...
There are three main species of monkeys in the areas of Costa Rica we visited and two of them don’t appear to be particularly wary of humans. The one we saw most...
Selvatura Park near Monteverde, Costa Rica proved to be a fantastic place to visit during our trip last week. Among the various attractions there is a beautiful,...
The much-beloved Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) has become a symbol of Costa Rica and you see it portrayed all over the country in tourist...
The number and variety of hummingbirds in Costa Rica is quite staggering! I saw this green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) at the Monteverde Cloud...
Yesterday’s autumn abstract seemed to appeal to folks so here’s another one from the same series, this time concentrating on golden aspens...
A yucca plant casts a shadow over the rippled surface at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
I noticed these milkweed seed pods outside an abandoned barn we were photographing last week up in New Hampshire. I was surprised by their size –...
We’re just back from 12 hours of photography starting at 6:30am this morning. We had intended the usual trip back to the hotel in the middle of the day but everything...
A single yellow Brown Bitterweed (Helenium badium) flower stands out in a sea of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower...
