Have you ever heard crickets in the springtime? You may think so but what you were probably hearing was really American toads. American to...

 Burrowing owls are a part of of a genus of smaller owls called Athene. The burrowing owl is the only member of the genus that is found in...

The winters here in Minnesota can be pretty drastic. During the winter there are less thing for me to photograph. With no bugs around my p...

 This morning I am heading out to Brownsville, MN, near the Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin border. I am hoping to have the opportunity to ...

One of our newest education birds at The Raptor Center is this young female American kestrel. At TRC we try not to think of the birds in ...

The great grey owl is a large owl that is found in the boreal forests of North America, Europe and Asia. They are the largest owl in the w...

Minnesota has a healthy population of black bears. The MN DNR estimates about 20,000 black bears in the state mainly in the northeastern t...

Ruddy Duck The ruddy duck is one of the more interesting looking ducks that are found in North and South America. They are a stiff-tail...

This handsome fellow is Pi. Pi is one of our education birds at The Raptor Center. He may look a bit different then many of the bald eag...

   There have been very few time that I have been worried about my safety while I have been out photographing. Most the time I am not ph...

The osprey is a very interesting raptor. They are sometimes called the fishing hawk, because they are almost 100% fish eaters. However the...

 The Altamira oriole is the largest oriole in the United States. They live in open riparian woodlands in Mexico, Central America and south...

The sea otter is a marine mammal in the weasel family. They are also on the endangered species list. At one time there was an estimated po...

The rough-legged hawk is a circumpolar species that is native to the Northern Hemisphere. They nest in the tundra and taiga regions of Ala...

  One of the best photo opportunities that I had this winter came from a small saw-whet owl that over wintered at local nature center, Do...

Yellow-bellied Marmot

If you do not live in North America you may never have had the pleasure to observe a chipmunk in the wild. The only species of chipmunks...

I photographed these Barrow's goldeneye ducks in Yellowstone. While most Barrow's goldeneye are found in the northwestern portions...