An Acorn Woodpecker, Yosemite, National Park, CA; 6/17/2009. One of our best trips within the past few years took us out to the iconic Yo...

Barn and farmland from Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's home property in Spring Green, WI; 7/1/2011. Val and I visit Spring Green every...

A colony of Purple Martins at Rock Cut State Park, Rockford, IL; 8/3/2011. The only time I have seen Purple Martins was in and near man-m...

A Sharp-shinned Hawk, Rockford, IL; 8/29/2011. As I was busy searching out and taking photographs of the Mississippi Kites (yestreday...

Mississippi Kite, hanging in Rockford, IL; 8/29/2011. Last fall (2010) a good birder friend and former teacher colleague of mine, John Lo...

Val's photo of a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes find a home in the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, WI; 8/13/2011. On our way ho...

Now that I am busy with school again, I will limit my posts to one or two  on weekends, instead of my daily summer posts. Thank you to all ...