“Birds of Prey With Prey” Honorable Mentions.2
Thanks again to all the photographers who submitted their Great Bird Pics for the contest – I very much enjoyed viewing each and every one of them. We narrowed down…
“Birds of Prey With Prey” Contest Honorable Mentions.1
Yesterday the winner of our “Birds of Prey With Prey” Contest was announced. Thanks again to all the photographers who submitted their Great Bird Pics for the contest – I…
“Birds of Prey With Prey” Contest Winner!
We had 82 entries in our “Birds of Prey With Prey” bird photography contest. Xwinger and I worked very hard to narrow down the field because there were so many…
Mammals Seen Around Nome
We spent almost four days in the Nome, Alaska area searching for birds (which I’ll start featuring next week) but today I want to share some pics of the mammals…
Great Bird Pics’ Bird Photograph of the Week – 8/28/26
How can it be the end of August already!? Actually, I’m looking forward to September and the migrant birds it brings. Reports of warblers are starting to trickle in so…
Great Bird Pics Members’ Bird Photography Showcase – 8/27/26
Great Bird Pics continue to come in from around the world and today we feature four from Australia and the United States. Here are the ones that caught my eye:…
Which One Wednesday – Least Sandpiper
We were with our good friends the Mannings last week while visiting Holland, MI. They are the top birders in the area so we love going out with them. We…
Finches That Changed The World
Some bird species are famous. The Dodo bird and Passenger Pigeons became famous because of their abrupt extinctions. The finches found on the Galápagos Islands are famous because they inspired…
The Alaskan Tundra
What comes to mind when I tell you that we were surrounded by tundra in Nome? How do you envision tundra? I had a vague notion that tundra was a…
Great Bird Pic’s Bird Photograph of The Week – 8/21/26
Icarus – the Greek myth about the man whose father created wings for him made out of feathers and wax but warned him not to fly too close to the…
Great Bird Pics Members’s Showcase 8/20/26
During our “Birds of Prey With Prey” Contest (results by the end of the month) most of the pics being shared were for the contest. Now that the contest is…
Which Yellow-headed Blackbird?
Which Yellow-headed Blackbird? Last week I shared a Yellow-headed Blackbird I saw perched on a barbed wire fence in the Ft. Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota. I modified the…