Category: #outdoor photography

• Four Raptors

  Raptors are birds of prey. I try not to overuse the word “awesome,” but raptors are awesome, awe-inspiring. I love it when raptors, who have extremely sharp eyes, are so generous as to allow me to photograph them. So, I have gathered here, in one place, photos of four different raptors— three diurnal and one…

  jwilce

  November 14, 2015

  #bird photography, #FlagstaffArizona, #hawks, #outdoor photography, #photography, #raptors, #wildlife photography, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

• What’s the beetle doing to its companion?

  This brief video (about 7 seconds long) captures a pair of beetles, apparently “Darkling Beetles” (family Tenebrionidae). It shows one beetle touching the other with its antennae.  The video was shot September 5 on Fatman’s Loop trail (Mt. Elden area of Flagstaff, Arizona).  I removed the sound track and edited out most of the effects…

  jwilce

  September 7, 2015

  #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #MountElden, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #wildlife photography

  #beetles, #insects, #naturevideos

• A summer of learning: Butterfly upperwings and underwings

  My first “wow” butterfly moment in the summer of 2015, described in Butterflies Part I, was really about butterflies and moths, and their antennae. The second moment of amazement is this realization: One butterfly, and in fact each individual wing of that one butterfly, can be very different when seen from above or below. Their…

  jwilce

  September 6, 2015

  #butterflies, #colors, #insects, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photonarratives, #wings

  #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #wildlife photography

• A summer of learning: How to tell butterflies from moths

  It has been a summer of wonder and amazement, based on apparently chance encounters of this insect or that. But of course what we see— if we are watching—reflects what is here for now, in this season (or sub-sub-season). And so, it seems that one week, quite suddenly, our Cheshire neighborhood (Flagstaff, AZ) was home…

  jwilce

  September 5, 2015

  #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography

  antennae, butterflies, insect diversity, Lepidoptera, moths

• A Humming-good story

  On Tuesday (8/18/15) my early morning walking feet took me to a strip of land covered with wildflowers like scarlet bugler penstemon and gilia. I have been visiting the strip for a week now because it’s a common place to find hummingbirds. And of course the hummers visit the strip because of the wildflowers. At…

  jwilce

  August 21, 2015

  #bird photography, #hummingbirds, #mating rituals, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #wildlife photography