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 | Nov 6, 2016 | Birds, California, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Travel
Large for a sandpiper, and of the four species of godwits in the world, marbled godwits are the biggest. This beautiful cinnamon-mottled shorebird breeds in the central North America’s Great Plains (Alberta, the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota and Nebraska) and...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 25, 2016 | Birds, NANP, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Pacific Northwest, Washington
For the past couple of years there has been a red-breasted nuthatch that lives near my house that is almost always visible until the moment I have a camera in hand, and it’s been driving me crazy. It was funny at first, but after months stretching into years, it...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 20, 2014 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
I found this breeding pair of ring-necked ducks on Trillium Lake last summer on a very cold, rainy summer morning on Oregon’s Mount Hood, 50 miles (80km) east of Portland. It was one of those typical Pacific Northwestern days and as I was about to give up on the...
by Rich Leighton | Jul 18, 2012 | Birds, NANP, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography, Photography, Washington
One of the most bewildering sounds I’ve been hearing in the mountain forests sounded like air being blown over the neck of a big glass jug, only deeper and louder. It always seemed to resound of the rocky outcrops and insinuate its way through the trees like...
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