Chomper Goes Home

In September 2011 a devastating flood wreaked havoc on the town of Owego, NY. During those few days a concerned citizen found a young snapping turtle, since named Chomper, who had been stranded. He was brought to Waterman Conservation Education Center which became his temporary home. In December 2017, high school senior and licensed rehabilitator, Anna Llewellyn, volunteered to care Read More …

“Pasajes de Agua” (Water Passages)

I spent a week in March at a Women Wildlife Filmmakers Workshop at Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama. Co-lead by two amazing conservation filmmakers Morgan Heim and Jenny Nichols, the workshop was a very intense week of instruction and hands on experience. For each project we paired up in groups of two. With my partner, Jordan Hoffmaster, our final project Read More …

Woody on Ice

Since I began photographing Wood Ducks in 2014 I have dreamed of a shot with a drake in nuptial plumage surrounded by ice or snow. Wood Ducks typically migrate south before the first snow falls so it’s not a common sight in upstate New York. In the spring of 2016 we had a deep freeze after the Woodies had returned Read More …

Meet the American Dipper

“Find a fall, or cascade, or rushing rapid, anywhere upon a clear stream, and there you will surely find its complementary Ouzel, flitting about in the spray, diving in foaming eddies, whirling like a leaf among beaten foam-bells; ever vigorous and enthusiastic, yet self-contained, and neither seeking nor shunning your company.” -John Muir Meet the American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) of Read More …

Cold Lunch

Listening to the harsh wind whipping outside I was grateful to be working on a project indoors.  As I sat cozy and warm by the fireplace I thought there was nothing that would bring me out into that bitter cold.  And then the phone rang.  My friends at the local Wild Birds Unlimited had a Merlin outside that had captured Read More …

“Puffins Ahead!” A Journey around South Marble Island

“A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.” – Henry David Thoreau South Marble Island is a remote limestone outcrop within Glacier Bay, Alaska that has been deglaciated for less than 200 years.  In that relatively short time the island has become a critical habitat for a variety of seabirds and mammals.  It is a haul-out Read More …