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 seeing the state of life in Anadyr and being warned by the Russian security services people who interrogated us (a story that will have to wait until later) that we were traveling to a lawless region full of criminals we were all anxious about what lie ahead at our final destination, Meynypil’gyno. For [...]

Here’s a slideshow of a Dall Sheep gallery I just uploaded. A few of the images are from a brief stop at Denali National Park this past fall. The other are newly scanned slides from several trips to Denali and the Brook’s Range some years ago. I still love the rich look of some of [...]

Snow Goose Migration is in full swing in many places across North America. There is nothing quite like the experience of being among tens of thousands of these birds as they erupt into noisy flight. A couple of years ago I spent several days documenting the spectacle near Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York. [...]

Here are a few new photos from the shorebird migration at Gray’s Harbor, Washington this spring.