An orca, part of the transients Pod 123, makes her way through the San Juan Islands in Washington Sp. Orcinus orca
A mother junco brings a dragonfly back for her young Sp. Junco hyemalis
Greater yellowlegs
Red breasted sapsucker
Snow geese flock on their spring migration in southern Nebraska Sp. Anser caerulescens
A Sandhill crane watches over the group searching for remnants in a cornfield. Hundreds of thousands of Sandhill cranes migrate through central Nebraska every spring on their way north to the Arctic Circle. Sp. Antigone canadensis
A mother pronghorn watches over her two fawns in central Colorado Sp. Antilocapra americana
Northern shoveler
A pika attempts to evade me near a high alpine lake in central Colorado Sp. Ochotona princeps
A juveline male Anna's hummingbird watches his human subjects while perched on the patio lights Sp. Calypte anna
A great blue heron stalks fish in the pond at Sapsucker Woods near Ithaca, New York Sp. Ardea herodias
Red efts are the juvenile forms of the Eastern red-spotted newt. The efts are the land-dwelling life stage of these creatures and are often bright orange spots on the autumn forest floor. Sp. Notophthalmus viridescens
A painted turtle sits on a moss covered log in a pond at Sapsucker Woods near Ithaca, New York Sp. Chrysemys picta
Sandhill cranes spar in a cornfield at sunset in central Nebraska Sp. Antigone canadensis
A large flock of Sandhill cranes takes flight after being scared by a dog running through the cornfield in central Nebraska Sp. Antigone canadensis
A small group of Sandhill cranes flies past the moon during their spring migration through central Nebraska Sp. Antigone canadensis
A female Olive Ridley sea turtle is saved from a local market in Teshie, Ghana where some locals haul in turtle caught as bycatch and sell them for food in the local market. This one won't meet that fate. Sp. Lepidochelys olivacea
A young orca splashes the water with his fluke in the San Juan Islands in Washington Sp. Orcinus orca
A group of Sandhill cranes seems to fly amongst a jet leaving behind contrails over central Nebraska Sp. Antigone canadensis
A tufted puffin, one of only about a dozen breeding pair in Puget Sound, sits in the calm ocean water off of Smith Island Sp. Fratercula cirrhata
A Wilson's snipe searches for food in a wetland in the Sandhills region of Nebraska Sp. Gallinago delicata
