We visited Sedona yesterday and spent 90 minutes or so driving around various local viewpoints with friends who live in the area. This shot was taken from...
Another of our Sunday locations was Sunset Crater National Monument which sits about half way between Flagstaff and Wupatki National Monument. Here, trails...
This intricate wooden dome at Lowell Observatory outside Flagstaff, Arizona is home to the Clarke 24″ Refractor telescope used by Percival Lowell...
Yesterday was a mammoth day for visiting National Monuments near Flagstaff as we hit three different locations over a twelve hour period. I had visited...
I’m out in Flagstaff, Arizona this week, working remotely while visiting my nephew. The last time I was here was about 37 years ago and I don’t...
Woohoo! It’s World Penguin Day and this Adélie certainly seems excited about it. Adélie’s (Pygoscelis adeliae) only live on and in the immediate...
I was saddened to read of the death of Pope Francis when I got up this morning. While I’m not a Roman Catholic, I had enormous respect for Francis...
Here’s another of the puffin portraits from my trip to Scotland back in July 2014. We spotted them on the island of Lunga in the Treshnish Isles,...
I found a bunch of overlooked frames while going through the images from our 2014 puffin-watching trip so here’s another. This is an Atlantic puffin...
This lone Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumped onto a beached iceberg and watched us intently as we motored past in a zodiac at Petermann Island, Antarctica...
We spotted this group of Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falklands on December 19th, 2024 as they were making their way down a penguin...
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
I got back onto penguin images again yesterday so here’s another. We spent an hour or so on December 19th last year fascinated by groups of Gentoo...
All this talk of tariffs levied on uninhabited Antarctic islands is obviously causing stress to this poor King Penguin spotted at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia...
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) seen at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia on December 24th, 2024. These birds live on the periphery of many penguin...
An Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata georgiae) adult and chick seen at Godthul on South Georgia, December 24th, 2024.
A Ruddy-Headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps) seen New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
This rather gruesome looking Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) was taking a bath at Cooper Bay, South Georgia where it and a number of other...
A Striated Caracara or Forster’s Caracara (Phalcoboenus australis) seen on New Island in the Falkland Islands on December 19th, 2024.
We saw a lot of penguins during our Antarctic adventure but there were also plenty of non-penguin birds to spot so I’ll run a short series of those...
