birds

Birdwatching has become a passion for my wife, Crystal, and I. As the bird populations decline each year, I appreciate my good fortune to live among these birds, and feel a certain responsibility to photograph them. I hope that my photographs can help to bring delight, awareness, and heightened interest in protecting birds.

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Ring-billed Gull

American Coot in American Sunrise

Belted Kingfisher

Redhead at Dawn

Lesser Scaup Lovers

Hanging Feathers Out to Dry

Black Skimmer at Dawn

Goldeneye

American Robin as Shorebird

Flighty Redhead

Redheads

Baltimore Oriole

Oyster Bay Egret

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Hybrid

St. Vincent Dunes at Dawn

Barred Fisherman

Anhinga Mating Ritual

Cormorant and Eel

Ruffled Ibis

Shrimp Boat Bird

Angel Wings

Hopping into the Air

Oystercatchers

RCW

Contemplative Snowy

Pelican Silhouette

Turkey Vulture

Standing Out in a Crowd

Nest Building

Looking Back

Whose Perch?

Fresh Catch

Red-shouldered Hawk at Dusk

Flight of the Eagle

Dipping

Cleaning the Nets

Breakfast Profile

Green Heron Watercolor

Pelican Sunset II

Take-off

Kingfisher on Wing

Whooping Crane Flyover

The Eagle Soars

Red Fellow

The Endangered Jay

Skimmer at Rest

Little Blue on Pink

Barred Owl

Baby Bird Banding

Meadowlark

Hooded Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Yellow-crowned Face

Peak Color

Reddish Portrait 2

Reddish White

On Golden Lagoon

Aerial Ballet 2

Wilson's Plover

Royal Tern

Star-spangled Silhouette

Pretty Flier

Red White & Blue

Great Egret Up Close

Great Blue Heron Portrait

Grackle Yoga

Watching Out

Domestic Spat?

Burrowing Owl

Happy Pelican

Landing Gear Down

Three White Pelicans

Mates

The Kiss

Gliding In

Incoming Anhinga

Nesting Great Blues

Summer Tanager 2

Summer Tanager

Young Fisher

Prothonotary Warbler

Double-crested Cormorant

Soaring Eagle

Fly By

How Dare He!

Tortured

Big Fish Tale

Spearfishin

Open Wide

Hard to Swallow

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Show-off

Curves of the Cranes

Eagle's Cry

Clown Face

Wedding Veil

Egret Poise

Intimate Egret Moment

Fledgling gets a Mouthful from Mama

Dad's home

Cardinal Pose

Fresh Mullet

Blue-eyed Snake Bird

Flight of the White Ibis

Emerging from the Reeds

Last Female Hooded Merganser

Dandy Fellow

'Bald Pate' Wigeon

Mama and Ducklings

Flying Stilt

Pelican Looking Back

The Elusive Kite

Pelican Portrait

Steppin Pretty

Swallow-tailed Kite on Wing

Gray Catbird

Moving Through

Prairie Warbler

Snail Kite Nabs an Apple Snail

Great Blue Heron and Chicks

Great Horned Fledgling

Mother Limpkin

Baby Limpkin

Me N Ma

Leapin' Lily Pads

Anhinga Feeding Chick

Egret and Ibis

Poised to Strike

Red-shouldered Hawk Portrait

Mouthfull

Shouting Match?

Primary Colors

Yellowlegs

Intimate Moment

The Big One That Didn't Get Away

Black-necked Stilt

Showing his Fancy Feathers

Flying Spoon

Orchard Oriole

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Hungry Barred Owl

Damsel in Distress

Mating Dance

Ruby-throated Hummer

Belted Kingfisher

Hovering Tern

Boat-tailed Grackle

American Avocet

The Miracle of Flight

Birds on Barbed Wire

Taking Flight

Sitting on the Old Man's Knee

White Flight

Redeye (the kind NOT to fix)

The Vulture Pose

Resting Skimmer

Wing Speed

Marbled Godwit in Flight

Larry Moe & Curley

Swamp Sparrow

St. V. Bluebird

Fishing Dance

Skimmin on Glass

Reddish Portrait

Reflective Preeners

Aerobatics

Mornin' Chitchat

Red Feet Tailing

Wood Stork

Warbling in the Poke Weed

Easy Pickins

Yellow-crowned Portrait

Brown Pelican in Flight

Ready to Strike

Arial Ballet

Sunrise Sentinals

Big Bite to Swallow

Ring-billed Gull