The first stage of migration in Northern Michigan is a wave of a few sparrow species. For the past week or so, the fox sparrows have been bouncing about on the forest floor near my yard. I photographed this guy straight out of my living room window. The green background is a single spruce tree about forty feet back.

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I found this pair with their single chick in a pond behind a house in Anchorage. It was a private pond beyond the homeowner's yard, so I knocked on the door and asked if I might visit their pond, or rather a small lake, and take a few pictures. The gentleman said, yes.

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I spent a week and a half looking for a fox litter at a den before I had to conclude mom had moved her young somewhere else. While waiting, a very patient PW showed up. Typically this species flies away when cameras are pointed, but this female gave me several shots over more than twenty minutes.

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I captured this image in Michigan's Upper Peninsula near Pickford. I, along with fellow Flickr photog Brian Jones, spent Christmas Week on an owl hunt. This bird appeared on our first day.

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I found this warbler outside of Anchorage, AK. I didn't succeed in getting a good image of this bird during migration, so I hoped to find one on his nesting grounds. I had to look around a bit, but one morning I went out for a hike looking for him when I heard his distinctive song. I like this image because of the light that is hitting him. Also, the image shows his diminutive size. So small, yet he is such a force. He migrated from central Mexico to southeastern Alaska--about 5,000 miles.

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