Bird Photography… 2022: Missouri – Summer Madness – Look a Bluebird! 4 Aug 202231 Oct 2023 It is summer time in Missouri, the heat is here and as of late so has the rain. A play on light, that is what I call the Indigo bunting…
Bird Photography 2022: Missouri – Spring Migration – “Red-eyed Vireo.” 8 Jun 202231 Oct 2023 Back at it again, another spring migrant, images from Tower Grove Park - St. Louis, Missouri. The Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is an American songbird of the order Passeriformes. As…
Bird Photography 2022: Missouri – Spring Migration- “The Magnificent Magnolia Warbler” 6 Jun 20223 Oct 2023 Spring of 2022, one of my goals - get better images of spring migrants! The Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) is a member of the wood-warbler family. The active, confiding Magnolia…
Bird Photography 2022: Missouri – Spring Migration – Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Jun 202231 Oct 2023 Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica): Breeds from south-central Alberta east to Nova Scotia, south to the east-central U.S. from New England to the Great Lakes region, and in the Appalachian Mountains.…
Bird Photography 2021: Missouri – Look what the wind blew in! 23 Mar 20221 Nov 2023 In the winter of 2021, into 2022, a rare migrant from the Arctic appeared and made where I am in Missouri, its winter home, and “bird watchers” are taking notice.…
Bird Photography… 2021: Missouri – The Harrier and the Owl. 12 Mar 20221 Nov 2023 "Try and try again." yeah that is the saying, in my case I have been trying, trying, trying, going all the way back to 2016. I have been trying to…
Bird Photography 2021: Missouri – Hopes for a Short-eared Owl! 10 Mar 20221 Nov 2023 It’s that time of year again. Christmas is in the air; the New Year is right around the corner and Old man Winter is coming! Boy wildlife photography is about…
Bird Photography 2021: Missouri – Manny look at that Pelican fly! 10 Mar 20221 Nov 2023 This may arguably be the most famous one-liner in movie history, in reference to a pelican. "Look at these pelicans fly. Come on, pelicans!" Look at this pelican fly! Sure…
Bird Photography 2021: Illinois – The Little Eastern Screech Owl. 9 Mar 20221 Nov 2023 Another winter is here, while some shudder at the thought of snow fall, I embrace the season of change, as winter migrants make their return to our area. Only 10…
Bird Photography 2019: Trinidad and Tobago – “Home!” Yerette – Home of the Hummingbird – Part Five. 19 May 20191 Nov 2023 This is the last in a five-part blog, reflecting on a 2019 trip to Trinidad and Tobago. It was a bittersweet sunrise; knowing my vacation was coming to an end,…
Bird Photography 2019: Trinidad and Tobago – “Home!” Chagaramus – Part Two. 8 May 20191 Nov 2023 On this day I met up with my good friend and hands down, one of the best birder and nature photographers on the island - David S. Huggins. This "bredda's"…
Bird Photography 2019: Trinidad and Tobago – “Home!” Caroni Swamp – Part Four. 30 Apr 201920 Jan 2024 Someone once told me, "Miguel you are my family." those words changed my perception and ultimately adjusted my reality. Being a family means you are a part of something very…
Bird Photography 2019: Trinidad and Tobago “Home!” Birds from the Backyard and Front Porch – Part One. 28 Apr 201920 Jan 2024 April 2022 is upon us. Where has the time gone? It has been almost 3 years since I visited my family back home. The "Pandemic" event of the past 2…
Bird Photography 2019: Missouri – “It takes two to tango!” 21 Apr 20191 Nov 2023 In the pre-dawn silence of a mild spring Missouri morning, a few brave members of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society gathered at the parking lot of Dunn Ranch Prairie,…
Bird Photography 2019: Trinidad and Tobago – “Home!” Asa Wright Nature Center – Part Three. 12 Apr 201920 Jan 2024 The roosters have been crowing since 430am. I did not get much sleep, I was excited about the day ahead. So I got up, showered and packed my camera bag,…
Bird Photography 2019: Missouri -“North American Bald Eagles of Clarksville.” 28 Jan 20191 Nov 2023 Photographing the North American Bald Eagle "Haliaeetus leucocephalus" Has been a few years in the making, after a more than ten-year hiatus, I got back into photography in 2013 -…