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Trip to Burns, Oregon, 25 May to 23 June 2006 with David R. James & Damon S. Calderwood. Around 7 pm David and I drove out to the Double O Ranch to check out the Snowy Plover. We drove right…

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Trip to Burns, Oregon, with David R. James & Damon S. Calderwood - 20 May - 23 June 2006. Photography of Loggerhead Shrikes 4 - 6 eggs - 11 June - young just hatched The nest, located in sage 4…

Male and female Bushtits are distinguished by their eyes - the female has a yellow eye while the male's is black. This is the best male bushtit photograph at the nest I’ve ever seen in all my years of photography.

Damon took this photo of a Brown Creeper feeding some kind of a grub to a ready-to-fledge young. There are 2 ways to know that the young are almost ready to leave home. First off, they become quite noisy as…

The parents would often both appear at the nest simultaneously and one would do a wing flutter as a kind of greeting to the other. I've observed this way of a greeting with other species. This photograph was taken in…

Here’s another link with great information on the American Dipper: https://www.donniedipper.com/

Trip to Burns, Oregon, with David R. James & Damon S. Calderwood 20 May - 23 June 2006. We found this family of Mountain Bluebirds in the unoccupied nest of an American Robin. Although this occurrence had been documented, it…

Damon Calderwood and I photographed this nest pretty much daily for the better part of a week with 2 different high-speed lighting systems. The 4 strobes were all set to fire at 1/16 of full power resulting in captures taken…