by Rich Leighton | Apr 24, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
Over the years I’ve seen all kinds of snakes meet their end at the end of a beak, but the other week in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Olympia, WA, I saw a first. A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) I was stalking at the edge of a flooded...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 16, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Travel
This was my first close-up encounter Southeastern Arizona corvids as I was photographing wildflowers in the Chiricahua Mountains when I ran into this Mexican jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi). These extremely smart relatives to magpies, crows and ravens are either very...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 1, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
After all these years of traveling around the country to get the best photographs of backyard songbirds, today I had to go no further than my back porch just south of Seattle, Washington. There is a bigleaf maple tree that is just going into flower, yet is still...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 5, 2013 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Washington
Last week I spent an absolutely freezing morning at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of the capital city of Olympia, Washington. Located at the mouth of the Nisqually River, which originates far up Mount Rainier, it is made up of both precipitation...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 7, 2012 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
This morning started off with snow and by noon, the snow had melted and the sun was out resulting in a beautiful bright, cheery day at just above freezing: my kind of weather, and stuck in my office was the last place I wanted to be. So I grabbed a camera and a zoom...
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