Segueing nicely from space hardware back to birds, here’s a Great Blue Heron that was fishing near Titan III Road in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station...
A group of Willets (Tringa semipalmata) apparently enjoying the view of Cocoa Beach Pier, Florida, shortly after sunrise.
Let’s leave space hardware for a while. Here’s a shot I grabbed while out for a walk shortly after sunrise on Monday morning. There were a couple...
A group of Steller Sea Lions relaxing on a rock outcrop in the Inian Islands of south eastern Alaska.
A Bald Eagle perched on an iceberg which was floating in front of the face of Margerie Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park on September...
We’ll stay with Alaskan wildlife today. Here’s a sea otter that popped its head up to say hello then smiled at our boat as we cruised past...
We saw many bald eagles in Alaska last September but most were some distance away and not easy to get a good, close image of. During our visit to the Alaska...
I’m out of town for Thanksgiving this week and haven’t been taking many pictures so didn’t post for the last few days. I’ve just...
Back to Alaska today with this image of a Glaucous-Winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) seen in Sitka at the start of our September visit to the state. The skies...
Here’s another of the long lost Yosemite National Park photos I discovered while wandering through the library a couple of days ago. This coyote...
Moss Glen Falls is a popular stop for people driving Vermont’s picturesque Route 100. They are easily visible from the road itself so no hiking is necessary...
Dead salmon lying on the banks of the Indian River in Sitka, Alaska. Each year, millions of fish return to the rivers where they originally hatched to spawn...
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) shows its flukes prior to diving in the Inian Islands of Alaska on September 13th, 2023. Compared to some other...
A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) floats on her back in a cove of one of Alaska’s Inian Islands, September 13th, 2023. The naturalist on board our ship...
Yesterday’s cool wildlife sighting was a huge pod of 50 to 100 (my estimate) Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) which followed...
The last bald eagle image I posted was of a bird in captivity but now that we’re out on the water, here’s one seen in the wild a couple of days...
Our first stop yesterday morning was the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka. The center rescues and rehabilitates injured birds from the local area and farther...
This image was grabbed during a salmon fishing trip back in 2015 from Sooke on Vancouver Island. Our captain was annoyed by the fact that the orcas were...
A final image of the Texas Dog-day Cicada I spent some time photographing last weekend. As with all the previous images, this was generated by focus-stacking...
A detail of the thorax and wing of a Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) found near Austin, Texas.
