A Leafcutter Bee with a heavy load of pollen under her abdomen gathers more on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026.
A Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) feeding on a millet head at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A Bumble Bee forages in a dense patch of flowers at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A female Black-chinned Hummingbird feeding on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026. It turns out that the male and female...
Kim’s flower field over at Nutty Brown Farm is looking amazing right now. I spent a too-short hour there early this morning photographing flowers,...
A collection of large icebergs seen in the Lemaire Channel off the Antarctic Peninsula’s west coast on December 31st, 2024. This was undoubtedly...
A section of the glacier at Point Wild on Elephant Island at the north eastern end of the South Shetlands chain in Antarctica. 22 members of the crew of Sir Ernest...
An interestingly-textured iceberg seen in Salpetriere Bay off Pleneau Island on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula on December 31st, 2024.
Iceberg A-76B was the second largest of three main fragments of the A-76 iceberg which broke from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in May 2021....
With July here and the summer heat turned up to high, let’s do some more ice pictures this week. Looking through the archives, I managed to find...
I’ll finish this series of bird pictures with one that seems rather appropriate for today, 4th of July. We spotted this Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)...
A Southern Rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) seen on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
A Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes Halli) soaring over the Scotia Sea between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on December 21st, 2024. I originally...
An Imperial Cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) preening itself in a rookery on New Island in the Falkland Islands, December 19th, 2024.
A Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) seen on South Padre Island, Texas on July 11th, 2025. I love the feather textures in this image and decided they would...
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as an Antarctic Skua, seen bathing at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. Fans of the movie...
A Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) seen on the shoreline at Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina on December 16th, 2024.
A South Georgia Pintail (Anas georgica georgica) seen among the rocks on the shoreline at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024.