Category: 52-week Project
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 ...
Week 31 – Calliope Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are on the move this time of year, heading south with a lot of other early migrants. Many hummingbirds will eventually land along the Pacific coast of Central America. It is within this relatively small section of the neotropics ...
Week 30 – Double-crested Cormorant
This week is just a simple image of a Double-crested Cormorant I have been wanting to photograph for a while now at the Veteran's Ponds in Boise. Every day a cormorant perches in this spot to sun and dry their ...
Week 29 – Sage Thrasher
It is that time of year when we see young birds galore. As many northern songbirds begin to think about migration, some are just finishing their broods and will head south a little later. This past week while filming for ...
Week 28 – Gray Partridge
This was the first good look I've really gotten at a Gray Partridge. Little did I know that Gray Partridge are a species that was introduced from Europe in the early 1900s. Unlike some other introduced species such as House ...
Week 27 – Clark’s Nutcrackers
I still remember the first time I saw a Clark's Nutcracker. Actually, I saw hundreds of them. I was in Zion National Park during the fall of 2007 and had just reached the top of Observation Point above the main ...
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 ...
