Great Horned Owlet
Boy do I love seeing owls! Last week I heard through the grapevine about some Great Horned Owl chicks on a nest at the Cub Run RECenter in Chantilly, not too far from where I live. I immediately ventured out to see the babies (there were reports of 2) on Saturday morning, but was only [...]
Supper time
Just a quick post with a few images of my local Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) having some supper. While he is a frequent visitor to my feeders it’s not often he gets what he came for. I happened to be headed upstairs and saw him in one of our trees eating what I believe was [...]
Partially leucistic Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
After a hike with my son yesterday, while we were driving home, I saw what looked like a very white hawk fly over the road and perch nearby. I happened to have my 7D with a 100-400mm lens on it on the passenger seat of the car (happy accident!) so I stopped and grabbed the [...]
Day 8 (part 1) – White Terns at Iolani Palace
On my trip I’ve been making an effort to find native Hawaiian birds, which is increasingly difficult in the lower elevations and urban areas. One bird of particular interest to me is the Manu o Ku, or the White Tern. This all-white bird is also known as the Fairy Tern. This bird is found in [...]
Day 7 (part 1) – Ka’ena Point – Albatross and Monk Seals
Today was a very exciting day, and the posts will be split into two – one focusing on Ke’ana Point and the wildilfe there, and the second on a great afternoon and sunset on O’ahu’s North Shore. Ka’ena Point is the western tip of O’ahu, and is protected as a State Park. We came from [...]
Day 6 – Kona Coast and return to O’ahu
Day 6 was mainly a travel day, but I did manage to make a few images in the morning before leaving Kailua Kona and heading back to Hilo for the flight back to Honolulu. Many of the birds found in the lower elevations here on the islands are introduced species, but some are still quite [...]
Day 5 (part 1)- Birds of Volcanoes NP
Day 5 started early as I decided to do some bird photography at a few locations in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park before heading out for the Kona Coast. (I’ll split today’s posts into two, one for the birds and one for Kona Coast shots). At first light I hiked the trails at Kipuka Puaulu (aka [...]
Day 3 – Bird Photography with Jack Jeffrey
A very exciting day indeed! Today I had the pleasure of shooting with Jack Jeffrey, one of Hawai’i’s premier nature and wildlife photographers and an all around great guy. We visited two sites, starting at the high elevation dry forests on the slope of Mauna Kea to look for Palila, a highly endangered endemic honeycreeper [...]
Winter Backyard Birding
This winter I’ve been having a lot of fun photographing birds right in my own backyard. With natural sources of food hard to come by, the activity at my bird feeders picks up dramatically on cold and stormy days, with literally hundreds of birds representing upwards of twenty species coming through the various feeders throughout [...]