Pedernales Falls State Park has a couple of excellent bird blinds. During our visit on Saturday, however, there were very few excellent birds visiting....
I spent yesterday morning out at Pedernales Falls State Park with a group of kids from our local 4-H club. We had intended shooting in the bird blind but there...
A small group of these sandpipers were running up and down the waterline on French Beach near Victoria, British Columbia when we visited a couple of weeks...
Our most memorable day of hiking during the Vancouver Island trip was around the China Beach/Mystic Beach area where the trails take you from the forest...
I spent some time at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Saturday playing with the macro gear and managed to grab a few shots of this Flame Skimmer...
Having fixed the software problems that prevented me from posting a picture yesterday, I reckon today is a good day for another puffin picture. Here’s...
A comb jelly which, I read, is not actually a jellyfish at all, seen at Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi last weekend. I’ve not done a lot of research...
Birds two days in a row – why not? This is a Crested Caracara which is a reasonably common carrion bird in this part of the world (though nothing...
Laughing Gulls (Leucophaeus atricilla) in flight in Corpus Christi, Texas. When I was a kid, we had many seagulls that looked like these back in Scotland...
Spring is springing very quickly here so it’s almost time to get back out with the macro lens and find some bugs and insects to photograph. Here’s...
I love obscure collective nouns and swans are, apparently, fortunate enough to have 4 words to describe them when in groups, none of which I had known...
This is a rather different post from usual. I’ve been challenged by Rob Hanson to take part in the Thomas Cook “Explore the Elements”...
An owl butterfly seen at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Cockerell Butterfly Center, an excellent place to spend an afternoon with a macro...
I’m delving deep into the archives with this shot which was taken almost exactly 5 years ago in February 2010 during a fantastic week in the national...
It’s about time we had another puffin on the photoblog, isn’t it? Here’s one of those cute little fratercula arctica (Atlantic puffin)...
The island of Lunga near Mull in Scotland is home to many thousands of seabirds. I’ve already posted several pictures of Atlantic Piffincs but there...
I caught this image of a soaring gull on the island of Lunga in the Treshnish Isles during a day trip from Mull this summer. That day (source of the puffin...
An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) seen on the island of Lunga, one of the Treshnish Isles off the west coast of Mull in Scotland.
This shot was taken at Eagle Lake just minutes from yesterday’s picture. I’m sure someone will complain that I didn’t translate the title...
The autumn leaf colours up here are apparently already past their best but, to someone who has never been in this area at this time of year, I’m...
