Tag: #northern Arizona

• What’s With the V-Formation?

  It is an inspiring, though common, thing to see flocks of ducks or geese flying overhead in V-formation. A duck flying alone is also beautiful, as is this mallard… http://www.wilcephotos.com/Northern-Arizona/JMW-Birds-Bees-Etc/i-qndbZbn/0/Th/BIF-Duck%3B%20BubblingPonds%3B%20IMG_9073%20C1PSD1-Th.jpg … but a group of birds synchronizing or coordinating their behavior presents us with a different kind of beauty.  This group of Canada Geese flying…

  jwilce

  February 18, 2016

  #northern Arizona, #photography, #wings, Arizona, bird photos, outdoor photography, wildlife photography

  #birds, #nature, #northern Arizona

• Hawks: Chasing and Being Chased

  Anywhere you see hawks you are likely to see them being chased by smaller birds and not just chasing after them. The following photos (some of which are links to wilcephotos.com) tell two stories. The first story consists of a single photograph of what we might expect to be most common—a bigger, more carnivorous bird…

  jwilce

  February 18, 2016

  #accipiters, #bird photography, #FlagstaffArizona, #hawks, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #raptors, Arizona

  #Arizona, #birds, #nature, #northern Arizona, #photography, #photonarratives

• How great to have an arboretum nearby

  It seems to me that supporting one’s local arboretum is a darned good idea, if one is lucky enough to have one. The Arboretum of Flagstaff is part of a network that includes the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix (dbg.org). That’s doubly convenient for us, since we travel to Phoenix from time to time. Four…

  jwilce

  October 17, 2015

  #butterflies, #colors, #dragonflies, #insects, #photography

  #Arizona, #DesertBotanicalGarden, #northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Odonata, The Arboretum at Flagstaff

• Encounter with a Coronado Skink

  We’ve been taking advantage of a series of hikes organized as part of the Roving Rangers Program — a wonderful service offered through a collaboration of the US Forest Service and the National Park Service in the Flagstaff area.  The last such hike we took led us along the Hidden Hollow trail, where we came upon…

  jwilce

  September 13, 2015

  #lizards, #photography, #reptiles

  #northern Arizona, lizards, reptiles

• 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