Author: wildlens
Week 26 – Red-breasted Nuthatch
This week has been so busy with the beginning of our Kickstarter campaign for Bluebird Man that I almost forgot it was week 26. I'm half-way through this 52-week project already! Time sure does fly. I spent Saturday morning birding ...
The View From Above
I have often wondered what exactly birds see in a landscape when they are returning to their breeding grounds during spring migration. Many travel hundreds to thousands of miles north from their wintering grounds in search of a good place ...
Adventure on Vermont’s Long Trail
This is part 2 in a blog series about my thru-hike of The Long Trail in Vermont - our country's first long distance hiking trail. From our first re-supply stop in Manchester, VT my mom and I continued our hike ...
Week 25 – Ruddy Duck
The more I learn about Ruddy Ducks, the more I become enthralled with their behavior and anatomy. I watched several male Ruddy Ducks display to females over the weekend. Note the bubbles formed at the waters surface near this male's ...
Southern Sea Otters: Part 2
*** Our next Eyes on Conservation project comes from Sarah Chinn, a Wild Lens collaborator from The Maasai Giraffe and The Lost Migration videos. Sarah is currently a USGS Western Ecological Research Center biologist studying Southern sea otters in San ...
What Bluebirds Eat
Bluebirds are insectivores. Voracious ones... This is one of the reasons they and other bird species are so vital to our ecosystems: they help keep insect populations under wraps. Without them, insect pests would surely multiply in numbers beyond our ...
Week 24 – House Wren
House Wrens are chatty birds, and none-more-so than a pair I photographed and filmed from a natural cavity in the Boise Foothills this week. This pair decided to take up residence in the crack of a locust tree directly adjacent ...
Southern Sea Otters: Part 1
*** Our next Eyes on Conservation project comes from Sarah Chinn, a Wild Lens collaborator from The Maasai Giraffe and The Lost Migration videos. Sarah is currently a USGS Western Ecological Research Center biologist studying Southern sea otters in San ...
A Very Windy Bluebird Box
Some people think of Mountain Bluebirds as being the hardiest of the three bluebird species because they tend to live at higher elevations that can experience more extreme weather. While we have a ton of respect for any little bird ...
