Ben and Joy

I was walking around the backyard in the afternoon when I saw a Cooper's Hawk swoop low towards our back spruce tree. As it got closer...

We got word on New Year's Eve that a Snowy Owl had been found at the Shelbyville Airport. We bundled up and headed out in the morning t...

A female American Kestrel paused for a second on the corner of a building out at Mt. Comfort Airport.

I know I just posted a Barred Owl picture, but this seems to be time for them. I have been hearing and seeing the Barred Owl in our neighbo...

If you flip through the pictures, it is almost like a flip-book, although six minutes elapsed between the first photo in this sequence and t...

I took Laney for an evening walk around the neighborhood to enjoy the snow and the daylight. I had all ready passed by this silver maple on...

I was sitting at the window watching the bird feeder, luckily with my camera ready. With a sudden rush, this immature Cooper landed in my c...

While birding the dusty backroads of Gray County, I was pleasantly surprised that there were actually birds in the open fields. One of the ...

A windmill on the background of the yucca and sage steppe of the Cimarron National Grasslands . An American Kestrel perches on a yucca sta...

Swainson's Hawk on a fencepost, Gray County, Kansas. Swainson's Hawks were the most common Buteo I observed this past week in sout...

Red-breasted Nuthatches were very common and friendly in the forest above 10,000 feet on Sunday morning. Several landed right next to me a...

I was driving back from work, when I saw a Golden Eagle sitting beside the road. I wonder if there was some roadkill, since when I...

A Northern Harrier watches the sunrise from his roost in the marsh. Greater Roadrunner on top of a bluff. Western Kingbirds were everyw...