by Rich Leighton | May 24, 2018 | Florida Nature Photography, Interesting Nature Facts, Mammals, Photography
Only the South American three-banded armadillos (Tolypeutes) rely heavily on their armor for protection. When threatened by a predator, Tolypeutes species frequently roll up into a ball. Other armadillo species cannot roll up because they have too many plates. The...
by Rich Leighton | Oct 31, 2017 | Colorado, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Wildflowers
Following up on yesterday’s post in the Halloween theme, today’s post of another “spooky” bit of wildlife and nature – the mountain death camas. Over the summer I found myself in the Rocky Mountains looking for native orchids at around...
by Rich Leighton | Jun 29, 2017 | Birds, Florida, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
The anhinga is one of the most strange, beautiful and ancient birds of The Gulf Coast region of the Southeastern United States. When North America was split in half roughly 100 to 40 million years ago by a great inland sea called the Western Interior Seaway (...
by Rich Leighton | May 31, 2017 | Birds, California, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography
I’m adding this set of photos a few months after I made them in California because I just wasn’t positively sure what exactly species I was looking at until a very experienced birder friend of mine on Facebook pointed out all the reasons that this is a...
by Rich Leighton | May 28, 2017 | NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington, Wildflowers
Besides wild orchids, wild lilies are a favorite of mine when tromping across the country in extremely rural to even semi-urban places. Recently I was in the Olympic National Forest near the shore of Lake Cushman near Hoodsport, WA scoping out new areas to photograph...
by Rich Leighton | May 27, 2017 | Birds, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
Very recently I was taking a “day off” (inside joke for those who know me personally – I work in some capacity nearly every day of the year) on a scouting trip for future photography trips in the Olympic National Forest. Near the Skokomish Indian...
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