Last night the winds were relatively calm and the sun was shining for the first time in at least a week.   The tundra, which was brown when we arrived, has now greened up. Sedges, grasses and the leaves of small willows and other plants have emerged from the crusty carpet of mosses and lichens.  [...]

After travelling through 18 time zones I am now in Anadyr, Chukotka in the far north east of Russia.   I have traveled around most of the northern hemisphere and am now back to a 6 hour time difference from my home in Seattle.  I am finally emerging from the fog my head drifted into [...]

Last night I was camped out along a rugged logging road deep in the boreal forest of Alberta. It was a foggy drizzly day rendering the dense forest especially foreboding and mysterious. In the late afternoon a pair of ravens winged overhead and erupted in to their guttural raucous calls somewhere not too far off [...]

Getting up at 5:00 in the morning and hiking in the dark to a cold cramped blind is not most peoples idea of a good time. And I must admit it seems a bit crazy to me at times as well – I would much rather be sleeping in. But I wish everyone could experience [...]

The area around Pierre and Ft. Pierre National Grassland in South Dakota is quickly becoming one of my favorite areas in the country. The beautiful rolling hills, prairie dog towns, intersting wildlife communities, sparse human population, and beautiful evenings make this a great place for natural history study, photography, and just sitting [...]

I spent the last few days in extreme southwest Kansas visiting the Cimarron National Grassland and surrounding area. Spring has arrived here and the short grass prairie is full of life and bird song. Grasshopper, Cassin’s, and Lark Sparrows along with Western Meadowlarks and Lark Buntings have been the most conspicuous grassland species. This [...]

Huddled in our blind on a cold dark morning we felt certain the Golden Eagle would again streak in and flush the Gunnison Sage-Grouse as it did yesterday. Fortunately, we were wrong. Instead, David and I enjoyed a beautiful morning filming and recording grouse as they displayed, mated, and fought. At least fifteen males [...]

This morning was spent scouting a Gunnison Sage-Grouse lek where David Brown and I hope to film and record for the next two days. We arrived with our host pre-dawn in order to observe the lek from a distance and get an idea of where the best spots would be to place our blind. Despite [...]

This is my first post of what I hope will become a more regular routine for me. Its been a while…
I’m off early tomorrow morning for a two-week whirlwind trip during which I hope to photograph and record surround sound audio of Gunnison Sage-Grouse, Greater Sage-Grouse, and Lesser Prairie Chicken. I’ll post what I can [...]