Greetings from the African savanna! Early last year, Wild Lens created two amazing films about our research and conservation work with Masai Giraffes and migratory ungulates. Our project is an integrated research, education, and advocacy campaign to conserve the threatened ...

Well I couldn't stay away for too long. I gave up on the idea of continuing the 2013 52-week project into 2014 as it would have been too big of a commitment, but I wanted to do something in 2014 ...

This is one of the most spectacular times of the year and one of my favorites because the Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) breeding season is underway. Thousands of elephant seals emerge from the ocean to fill selected beaches along ...

I wanted to follow up on my Week 50 photograph of a Rough-legged Hawk being released with some more details about the individual we trapped and banded. The scientific name for the Rough-legged Hawk is Buteo lagopus. Why are they ...

While out on the Prairie bluebird trail one day this past summer I went to check on a nestbox and noticed that it had the words, “Bluebirds are Happiness” inscribed just below the hole. The words were just barely discernable, ...

Here we go: The final post of this 52-week project and I am so glad to be in western New York for this one! The number of Snowy Owls I have seen along Lake Ontario in New York has been ...

Turns out there are raptors in New York City too, and from my limited observations they live a pretty cushy existence. Most folks, even non-birders, know about the Red-tailed Hawks of Central Park. But while visiting the big city last ...

What's even better than photographing your first Rough-legged Hawk? How about trapping one and getting to see it up-close-and-personal! I made an unofficial rule at the beginning of this 52-week project that I wouldn't use the same species two weeks ...

Finally!! It's no secret that Rough-legged Hawks are my favorite bird, but they have continued to be my "nemesis photograph bird" ever since I acquired my Canon 7D in the summer of 2012. No longer. I had several better photographs ...