As the crow flies, Hunting Island State Park is only about 20 miles from where I live. But water makes things a bit more complicated. To reach it I have to drive something that looks like a circle and takes about an hour. It’s a shame because Hunting Island State Park is a real gem. …
Life has been full of changes lately. After many years in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, I moved across the country to Bluffton, South Carolina. This puts me at the southern tip of South Carolina only a couple of hours from Florida. I had a bit of unpacking and settling in to do, but I …
My second day in the Hiawatha National Forest also proved a bit difficult. I had great luck finding birds, hearing them calling all over. By now, I had become somewhat familiar with the general layout of the National Forest and its roads. Even though I could quickly locate the birds, they were in a mood …
Life got a little bit busy here so I wasn’t able to do any photographing last week, but this week I was really looking forward to another try at warblers. Even two weeks later, it is still early for warblers in Michigan, so I headed down to southern Ohio – this time near the Ohio …
Signs of spring had come. Spring is one of the most exciting times of year for a wildlife photographer. At the end of a long, dreary winter new life returns and subjects are everywhere. Not only are the animals around, but they’re all active. Generally speaking, they have two things on their mind – food …
Catalina State Park truly is a joy to stay in. Not many cities have such a great area just outside their city limits – Tucson is lucky! Outside of the campground I called home for a couple of nights, there are numerous trails leading up into the mountains and wildlife abounds, even early in the …
After a last night of sleep in Madera Canyon it was time to head back north for one final location in Arizona. Catalina State Park is a marvelous jewel just outside of Tucson. It was another clear and dry day this time with the heat reaching up to early summer levels. Fortunately towards the end …
To be honest, I didn’t even know it was April Fools’. Camping out every day and not interacting much with civilization aside from maybe at lunchtime, really skews your sense of time. I understand now why prisoners kept for a long period of time just maintain a count of the days. That really was all …
After my luck yesterday with the trogon, I headed to the same area of the woods to see what I could find. The Cassin’s Kingbirds continued their avoidance of me and I didn’t get any great opportunities with birds. However I had the good fortune to run into some wonderful people who were out leading …
Arizona is a big, big state. There were several places I was planning to visit in southern Arizona and although they were ‘close’ to each other, that means a few hundred miles of driving. So after waking up, I stopped by the Tucson Mountains on the way out of the Saguaro NP vicinity. The light …