Today's birdwatching trip around the 12-mile self-guided Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge auto tour route was nothing short of a headscratcher for me, to say the least. It's early October,…
I hope you will excuse the sarcastic-looking title for this blog post. Today was just a very frustrating day for me while trying to photograph birds in flight and I…
Every once in a while, and for some unknown reason I might add, my mind likes to go off on a metaphorical hiking expedition of sorts, one where it starts…
As I sit at my laptop to work on this blog post my mind has been trying to meander a bit, something quite common when the topic at hand involves…
Let me start off by saying it pains me, I mean it truly makes me physically hurt, when I look at some of the landscape images I'm about to show…
Okay, I know what you are thinking with a title like that, and, well, I have to agree with you 100 percent. "Jeff, isn't it pretty obvious and a basic…
When I first got started photographing nature on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge auto tour route many years ago, the very first bird that caught the attention of my…
As a birdwatcher, I can honestly say I have never seen it before and I don't know if I will ever see it again, at least in that magnitude I'd…
Have you been birdwatching the past few weeks or so on a wetland in your neck of the woods, one similar to the famed Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge auto…
I'm fascinated with hummingbirds, plain and simple. These incredible little birds are really how I learned most of what I know today regarding bird photography but that, however, will be…
Yes, properly composing a bird image while photographing out in the field is really a thing, trust me on that. I know what all my fellow "photogs" are thinking from…
If there's anything else on this earth I'd rather be doing other than watching, photographing, and writing about birds, I certainly haven't crossed paths with it yet. Truth is, I've…
Now this may sound strange to some of you but for a long time now, anytime I see an American white pelican in fact, I get this constant craving to…
Each winter I find myself mesmerized by the American kestrel, a somewhat common bird found on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge during the coldest parts of the year. With…
If there's anybody that has a valid reason to be a "gloomy Gus" lately I'd argue that both the recent passing of my mother and now my 15-year-old dog seemingly…