Shorebird Identification
Recently, I gave a webinar on how to identify some of the shorebirds that area seen in the Las Vegas area. Check out the video below for more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1OEhFH-I3Q
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Working with Light – Black-necked Stilt
There is a birding spot 1/2 mile from my house that I love, but most birders would never visit. Why? The birding area is part of the Upper Las Vegas Wash and it is very urban in every sense of the word. The water comes from street runoff and a couple water treatment …
Playing with the Shadows – Fox Sparrow Edit –
Fox Sparrows are an uncommon sparrow in the Las Vegas area. We see a a handful each year, during migration and sometimes a few stay the winter. I took image early in the morning, just as the sun was rising. The Fox Sparrow was deep in a thickly vegetated. Luckily, I had my tripod …
Lucy’s Warbler and the Power of Shooting in RAW
Lucy’s Warbler (Leiothlypis luciae) is the first warbler heard singing around Las Vegas in the spring. In 1861, ornithologist and surgeon James Graham Cooper found Lucy’s Warbler along the lower Colorado River near Fort Mojave, Arizona—the site where present-day Arizona, California, and Nevada come together. Although many naturalists had traversed this region in previous …