Category: animal behavior

• First Newsletter! (on wilcephotos blog)

  I just sent out my first newsletter! Here’s the tease: I wrote this newsletter, which is what follows below, before my main external storage (drive) crashed. It’s amazing how roiled up I’ve been in the aftermath. 😦 Read the rest here: The newsletter says I’ve been posting over on my WilcePhotos site. Here is an…

  jwilce

  August 9, 2025

  #photography, animal behavior

  animal action, squirrel behavior

• News from wilcephotos.com!

  Enjoy while honoring the effort and soul that artists put into their work.

  jwilce

  January 11, 2025

  #bird photography, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #wildlife photography, #wings, bird photography, bird photos, Birds On the Ground, Bosque del Apache, Mirrorless cameras, National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, New Mexico, outdoor photography, Petrified Forest, Photo Editing, photo websites, Photoshop, skies, Sunrises, websites, wildlife photography

  #birds, #getolympus, #nature, #photography, Bosque del Apache, National Parks and Wildlife Refuges, New Mexico, Painted Desert, travel

• New photos featured by FineArtAmerica

  Interested? Just click here to shop for products bearing my FAA-featured images! Want to see the photos above one at a time? Click the image names below. repeating hills in southwest take 2 horse before storm, bear butte lake sunset, clouds in a box rainclouds pulling up to park, grounded, live streaming, budding storm Let…

  jwilce

  June 2, 2024

  #bird photography, #clouds, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #gifts, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photography, #sunsets, #technological improvement, Arizona, Birds On the Ground, Cloud Photography, FAA: Fine Art America, Flagstaff Parks, Gift ideas, Jigsaw puzzles, light and shadow, Mammals, Mirrorless cameras, Mountains, Mountains And Trees, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, panoramas, panoramic art, rural America, South Dakota, Sunsets

  #getolympus, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff

• Natural Beauty of Western South Dakota

  I think you will love the photos you see in our “South Dakota Sojourn” in September 2023 (my new collection/ gallery in Fine Art America). But just for you, I am offering these three photos as downloads, for $1.99 each. Please preserve my watermark if you download my photographs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST in…

  jwilce

  September 30, 2023

  #digital cameras, #nightsky, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #parks, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wildlife photography, animal behavior, Black Hills, FAA: Fine Art America, goingpro, Mammals, Mirrorless cameras, Northern Midwest, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, Photo Editing, professionalism, rural America, wildlife photography

  #getolympus, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography, #publicspaces, Animal eyes, Bear Butte State Park, Bison, Buffalo, South Dakota

• New photos on FAA!

  wilcephotos says, “please shop big or bug photos!” 😉 From big to bug: Deer and butterfly If you like these two photos, you’ll love the two similar pix I just posted. Click here for the Southwestern Azure and this one for the mule deer photos on Fine Art America. Please shop while you’re there!!

  jwilce

  July 22, 2023

  #butterflies, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #flowers, #northern Arizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photography, #technological improvement, #wildlife photography, animal behavior, FAA: Fine Art America, goingpro, holiday gifts, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, OM1 camera

  #Arizona, #butterflies, #fineartphotography, #getolympus, #insects, #lepidoptera, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, #wildlife photography, backyard wildlife, Fine Art America, Flagstaff, mule deer, tans

• Landscape photography

  Mixed feelings about re-branding wilcephotos I am in the midst of branding or re-branding wilcephotos. Hence I have temporariliy de-activated my Shopify store. Let me tell you about it. The sequence of three doctored photos below says a lot about my feelings about re-branding wilcephotos, my business identity/ FB Business page with a new focus…

  jwilce

  May 19, 2023

  #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photography, #Urban Landscapes, #wildlife photography, animal behavior, Arizona, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, goingpro, Mammals, outdoor photography, Photo Editing, Sotware, wildlife photography

  #landscapephotography, #nature, #northern Arizona, #photography, Flagstaff

• Underexposed?

  or dark, rich, moody? I admit it— I love my “underexposed” images. I succumb to what one of my generous mentors calls “the religion of low light.” Why? The colors are so darned rich! The downside? They are “noisy”! (Noise is to digital images as “grainy” was to film images.) Here are two of my…

  jwilce

  March 21, 2023

  #bees, #bumblebees, #colors, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #flowers, #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wings, animal behavior, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, OM1 camera, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff

• New!!!

  See my latest photos including recents from Texas! Where else can you see my latest photos? Fine Art America https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/art?sort=recentlyadded Shopify Shutterstock https://www.shutterstock.com/g/JAMES+M+WILCE+JR pexels.com (free content, or make a donation to help defray the high cost of photography and travel) All of my photos on Pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/@jim-wilce-423947101 Texas Travels on Pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/collections/texas-travels-vvdm89f/ I SO appreciate…

  jwilce

  March 19, 2023

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #wildlife photography, #wings, animal behavior, bird photography, bird photos, Birds On the Ground, Bolivar Peninsula TX, FAA: Fine Art America, High Island, Mirrorless cameras, OM1 camera, outdoor photography, rural America, Texas, Texas tourism, Texas vacations, wildlife photography

  #Texas

• Puddingstone Reservoir February 2022

  “Puddingstone” is the common name referring to the artificial lake at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas, southern California. It is an excellent site for birding. I was there, outdoorswithcamera, on February 8 and 9. This post focuses on waterfowl photos, all available as digital downloads. I am still saving up for a…

  jwilce

  February 23, 2022

  #bird photography, #California, #digital cameras, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, bird photography, bird photos, Birds On the Ground, California, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

  #birds, #getolympus, #nature, #olympusphotography, #photography, #publicspaces, #riparianareas, #Southern California, #wilcephotos.com, #zoomlenses

• Wing Flapping Displays As Agonistic Behavior

  I introduced this series of posts addressing “agonistic behavior” with the following definition, from the Wikipedia article on the subject: “The term has broader meaning than aggressive behaviour because it includes threats, displays, retreats, placation, and conciliation.” This post highlights wing flapping by ducks as an example of agonistic behavior that is clearly not fighting (but could…

  jwilce

  September 19, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, #wings, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• Agonistic Behavior: Small Vs. Large Once More

  One clash, two photos— Red-winged Blackbird Harrassing Great Blue Heron on banks of Francis Short Pond. In the first, the blackbird passes by the heron. In the second, the heron seems to me more worried. Once again two species clash, and once again the smaller seems to have the upper hand— or at least it…

  jwilce

  September 18, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, herons, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• The Agoni(stic) And the Ecstacy (Or Not): Bird Vs. Mammal

  Juncos are fairly tough birds. They hiss and click if you unwittingly get near their nests. So if they can challenge humans, ground squirrels may well appear to them to be relatively easy to chase off. That is the way it seemed a month ago when two juncos challenged a rock squirrel in our front…

  jwilce

  September 18, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• “Agonistic Behavior” Among Birds: More Than Just Fighting

  A useful introduction to the term “agonistic behavior” is found here,” from Wikipedia—”Agonistic behaviour is any social behaviour related to fighting. The term has broader meaning than aggressive behaviour because it inecludes threats, displays, retreats, placation, and conciliation.” My camera and I see it all the time, from our bird bath to clashes in the (relative) wild. I have documented such…

  jwilce

  September 16, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #raptors, #wildlife photography, #wings, agonistic behavior, animal behavior, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• Motion Blur Photography #3: Flock of Geese

  You have noticed by now that there are two connected ponds on the Old Walnut Canyon Road (the road that leads to Walnut Canyon National Monument) that attract a variety of waterfowl as well as ospreys, bald eagles, and swallows. Once again I turn to my cache of photos taken there for another favorite— the…

  jwilce

  September 15, 2020

  #bird photography, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, #wings, animal behavior, Arizona, Behavioral synchrony, bird photography, bird photos, Canon EOS Rebel Cameras, Digital single lens reflex cameras, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• Gray Fox In Our Neighborhood

  A few weeks ago, on back to back days, I had magical encounters with a gray fox, which was standing on one of the huge boulders adjacent to the Cheshire Pond (Cheshire Park). My wife and I had last seen one in our neighborhood about 16 years ago! I took this photograph during the first…

  jwilce

  September 11, 2020

  #northern Arizona, #photography, #wildlife photography, animal behavior, Arizona, outdoor photography

  Family Canidae, Mammals, Open spaces, Public parks, Suburban wildlife, the "dog" family