I’m not a biologist, but if you’re a Townsend’s vole and find yourself in this situation, you’re not having a good day.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Round Eyes
A nearly straight-on look nicely shows the round eyes on the sides of the cottontail’s head that provide it with a wide field of view.
Momentary Pause
A tree swallow in the late spring takes a brief break from hunting for insects on the wing over the waters of Long Lake.
Not Just the Bad Bugs
When I think of birds eating insects, the insects I envision are those that annoy or destroy, but when I saw this nuthatch with a ladybug in its beak I was reminded that some species eat a wide variety of insects, be they “good” or be they “bad”.
A Pattern Emerges
I thought the picture of the close-up of a bittern’s face would be my favorite bittern picture of the year, but a month and a half later I got my current favorite, this view of the varied patterns and colors of a bittern’s plumage. This is an evolution of an idea that I first got photographing the colors and textures and patterns of the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone, then evolved through trees in the Olympic rain forests and later the redwoods, then in birds in the great blue heron, turkey, and finally, finally the bittern.