Check out my Snowy Owl story and photos recently printed in the July/August issue of Bird Watcher's Digest! The story, "Meeting the Neighbors," describes an unexpected encounter with a Snowy…
Birders often call small brown nondescript birds like sparrows LBJs, short for "little brown jobs." Strictly speaking Song Sparrows qualify as LBJs. However as the photo above shows these little…
A Horned Grebe in breeding plumage is one of my favorite water birds to photograph in the spring. Starting in early April the grebes begin the change into their amazing…
This post is titled "Bird of the Week: Ruddy Duck." It probably should be more like "bird of the month." I got busy with my day job and hadn't posted…
There's nothing like watching a giant flock of Snow Geese blast off when a predator approaches. The photo above shows a flock that I photographed this weekend in the Skagit…
Snow Buntings are rare in western Washington where I live. So as a birdwatcher and photographer I jumped at a recent chance to photograph a Snow Bunting. These little birds--slightly…