Category: 52-week Project
Week 43 – Merlin
I feel like I'm cheating... almost. For the last three weeks now I have posted photographs of wild-caught raptors either in the hand, or just leaving the hand. Now some may say these photographs lack the true purity of a ...
Week 42 – Northern Goshawk
Another photo this week from the Goshutes in Nevada. If you look closely at this bird's right leg you'll notice a silver aluminum band. These bands have a unique number on them that will identify this individual bird if he ...
Week 41 – Sharp-shinned Hawk
This adult female Sharp-shinned Hawk was photographed from inside the trapping blind at HawkWatch International's Goshute Mountains Raptor Migration Site. The Goshutes are a remote field site without internet access, hence the lateness of this weeks photo. Since this isn't ...
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 ...
