Bighorn Rams, Finally!

Autumn 2013, 2014 and 2015, Wyoming, “I think I see something!  No, wait, it’s just a rock.”  Five minutes later, “…over there, something white!  No, that’s a rock too.” My boyfriend, John, and I have spent countless hours searching for bighorn sheep, scouring rocky mountain surfaces for the large white patches adorning their rear ends.  As rams mature, they grow Read More …

A Tale of Two Brothers

Life in the African bush is hard for prey animals and apex predators alike. Ungulates such as Zebras, Gazelles and Wildebeest are constantly wary, keeping watch to ensure they don’t fall victim as food for one of the countless predators that share their territory. Predators fight among themselves over that same region. Lions will battle to control existing prides and 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 …

Photographing Wood Ducks in the Wild

“What an ornament to a river to see that glowing gem floating in contact with its waters!” – Henry David Thoreau, writing about the drake Wood Duck Yesterday was World Photography Day and on social media I wrote briefly about my beginnings, five years ago when I set out to photograph wood ducks at my favorite, local wetland.  I thought I Read More …