My favorite photo - a newly fledged Bald Eagle has a feisty American Kestrel take a ride for a second, taken at the river behind the house.
Pileated Woodpecker pair in the front yard. New photos nearly every day on our Blog page!
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Things are always hopping at the Raptors of the Rockies organization. We're taking care of the birds and maintaining their enclosures, we're conducting raptor programs at local schools and organizations across Western Montana, art is flying out of the studio, we're taking photos and shooting video, we're out in the field birding and/or doing research, and much, much more. To help you keep up with the flurry of activities happening at Raptors of the Rockies, we're blogging on a more-or-less daily basis and our most recent posts are listed below. Enjoy!
Today and Help?Posted: Thu, 21 Nov 2024Friends, just got these guys down at the river and hoped for some help. We could use two things: Newspapers to place under the bird perches when they are inside in the cold weather AND perhaps some oldish game meat -elk, deer, bear anything to feed the eagles and hawk. Please let me know at raptors@montana.com. Can pick up or you come over and meet our Teaching Team Birds! THANKS!
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Five Minutes AgoPosted: Wed, 20 Nov 2024
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Sundays Are for ArtworkPosted: Mon, 18 Nov 2024Painting the Pygmy-Owl etchings, edition of 5. It always takes me a day to figure out the painting and drawing on the print, then try to remember how I did that for the other four.
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Our Homing Pigeons TodayPosted: Sun, 17 Nov 2024
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Today's Etching!Posted: Sat, 16 Nov 2024
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PortiaPosted: Tue, 12 Nov 2024Our beloved Barred Owl, and what a name - Bard of Avon is William Shakespeare, perhaps best play "Merchant of Venice," and the wonderful female heroine Portia. I know...kind of a stretch, and bard means poet.
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Feather FeetPosted: Sun, 10 Nov 2024Bald Eagle stretching at the river and feathers on his foot so maybe just ate a duck? At that nest by Bonner that was the topic for my 2013 book, I even saw them bringing in starlings and pigeons! ps: Just now, Sunday morning, she has been in the nest and he just brought in a big stick. Housekeeping. It is photoperiod that mimics spring that causes birds to briefly revisit nesting behavior.
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AnswerPosted: Sat, 09 Nov 2024Trumpeter Swans, telltale beak and a tough one, sorry!
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SwansPosted: Sat, 09 Nov 2024Always a trick telling them apart, so what are these, Tundra or Trumpeter Swans, at Metcalf Refuge? By the Coot.
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Daily Dog WalkPosted: Fri, 08 Nov 2024This from last February, sent to my pal Steve Watson in the UK. I am so chuffed! Apparently this is the hip word, chuff. Steve informed me: 'Chuffed' is a word that's old but is in new vogue of late. It used to be a word synonymous with 'rather pleased' but it's now morphed into a cooler word meaning 'thrilled to bits.' That's us, thanks Steve and see an eagle in this photo on the left in the cottonwood?
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