Top Shots – Number 4 — Wildonline.blog

Top Shot number Four Grumpy’s first day out in the garden. A real adventure for this young hedgehog. I can only imagine what must have been going through his mind . Top Shot number Five Starting of the list is this shot of a Brown Hare , taken at one of my favourite local locations […] …

Greater Roadrunner On A Wooden Post — Sonoran Images

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I’ve described my drives through rural Arizona’s farmlands as hours of boredom punctuated by a few seconds of adrenaline rush. The roads that I traverse regularly are flat, monotonous, and often, choking with dust. Sometimes I’ll drive […] …

Don’t Worry BEE Happy! — Through Open Lens

F/8.0, 1/250, ISO 320. Bumblebee Why don’t elephants use cellular phones? So the rest of the world won’t know their plans. Interesting Fact: The bumblebee tongue (the proboscis) is a long, hairy structure that extends from a sheath-like modified maxilla. The primary action of the tongue is lapping, that is, repeated dipping of the tongue …

Pals of a feather # 1 — H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

Starting TODAY I will post “Pals of a feather” on Wednesdays and Fridays. The posts are not for individual birds per se, instead it will depict groups of birds which could be of the same species or mixed. I want the readers to see how the birds share in Nature and their behavior in conjunction […] …

Black-crowned Night Heron (Juvenile) — A Wading Bird In The Desert? — Sonoran Images

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Yesterday morning, my friend Ned Harris and I took a drive into the farmlands northwest of Tucson. It was a brilliantly sunny day and bone dry. Clouds of dust blew off the roads and the adjacent fields, […] …

Greater Roadrunner — Perching On “The Snag” — Sonoran Images

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. When I go out in the field to photograph birds I often follow a route that I’ve traversed many times in the past. The farmlands northwest of Tucson are criss-crossed with dozens of miles of dirt roads …