Author: wildlens
Week 40 – Mountain Chickadee
With the government shutdown effectively putting the kibosh on my planned trip to Great Basin National Park, I decided to visit the neighboring Mount Moriah Wilderness instead. This little known wilderness area in eastern Nevada is home to low-land sagebrush ...
Week 39 – Mountain Bluebird
After 39 weeks this is officially the first time I've used the same species twice during this 52-week project. I'm happy that it is the Mountain Bluebird. I was excited to visit my old stomping grounds in southern Utah and ...
Week 38 – Ring-billed Gull
You would think after spending 4-days at HawkWatch International's premiere raptor trapping site that I would have come away with some excellent raptor photos. Well... not so much. I was in the Goshute Mountains of eastern Nevada to film for ...
Week 37 – Forster’s Tern
Terns are extremely fun to photograph. Their flight style and ability to dive into water for fish make them quite photogenic. Last summer I spent nearly an entire morning photographing Arctic Terns along a creek just downstream from a fish ...
Week 36 – A Birdie Black & White Sunrise
This was one of those weeks. Probably the most frustrating I've had since this project started. It seemed like I was thwarted at every turn. Both days I set aside for photography were almost totally rained out. BUT I'm certainly ...
Week 35 – Common Tern
When I took this picture yesterday, I anticipated an easy ID as I knew Forster's Terns were the only regular inhabitants of western Utah save Black Terns, which are quite easy to identify (they're black!). I have relatively little experience ...
Week 34 – American Redstart
This may or may not be considered cheating but this bird was just too cool to pass up on. I won't normally post photos of birds in the hand, but I'm making this one exception for the year. The American ...
Week 33 – Black-chinned Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbirds are the western counterpart to the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds found throughout eastern North America. Unlike their relatives back east however, male Black-chinned Hummingbirds have a jet black gorget with a small area of iridescent violet towards the bottom. As ...
Week 32 – Spruce “Franklin’s” Grouse
Fresh off a 5-day backpacking trip to the beautiful Seven Devil's Mountain Range and the Hell's Canyon Wilderness Area comes this weeks photo! I decided to lug my camera along with me and I'm glad that I did. On the ...
