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...
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)...
The number and variety of hummingbirds in Costa Rica is quite staggering! I saw this green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) at the Monteverde Cloud...
In Texas, one sure sign that summer is on the way is your first sighting of a scissor-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus). These spectacular migrants...
Drew and I spent the morning at Austin Zoo with the 4-H photography group kids. I didn’t take too many pictures but was quite happy with a few I grabbed...
The common raven (corvus corax) is incredibly common inside Grand Tetons National Park. Apparently, they’ve reached pest status with their population...
On our way back from Fredericksburg this weekend, we stopped in Johnson City to look at a couple of galleries and discovered an arts and crafts fair going...
Another of the friendly Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) found on the island of Lunga just off the island of Mull just off the west coast of Scotland....
This shot of a white egret was taken several years ago during a trip we took down to South Padre Island at the southern tip of Texas. The Birding and Nature...
A couple of days ago, Ernie Romer challenged me to post a nature picture each day for the next 7 days so here we go. I’m delving into the archive...
It’s about time we had another puffin picture, I reckon. Here’s an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) seen on the island of Lunga, part of the Treshnish...
Pedernales Falls State Park has a couple of excellent bird blinds. During our visit on Saturday, however, there were very few excellent birds visiting....
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...
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...
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...
