A drake wigeon feeds on clover near a wetland in Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #ducks

RED CROSSBILL male, photographed near my home in Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

FALL WONDER: A spruce grouse hen peers from a spruce limb near Southcentral Alaska's Skilak Lake. Spruce grouse males feature black chin patches, defined scarlet eye combs, and black-barred chests. Females are a more even mottled brown, as seen here. #birding #birds #birdphotography #wildlife

A loon in flight calls overhead as I ease the hook from the rainbow’s jaw and lower it into the creek. There, among the reflections of cottonwoods, I find a gap in the foliage, let go, and watch the fish vanish into the sky. #fishing #trout #writing #literature

These are good days to be a bear. Or anyone else, for that matter, who enjoys the early smells, colors, and overall dimensions of (dare I say it?) … fall, here in Southcentral Alaska. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography

A collared pika stands lookout from its stone post in Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains. #wildlife #nature #photography #animals

It's late. An inky dusk rises from the ground shadows, muting the light between the lynx and I. It looks away, then rises, turning on lanky legs. Without looking back, it pads away, short tail twisting in an abbreviated wave as it disappears for the night. #wildlife #photography #writing #nature

WILLOW PTARMIGAN IN FLIGHT: Alaska's state bird is a colorful creature during the breeding season in late April and early May. I captured this male showing off for a hen in the mountains of Chugach State Park, overlooking Anchorage. #birds #birding #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature

A BROWN CREEPER sneaks its way up a spruce trunk in Southcentral Alaska #Birds #Bird_Photography #birding #nature

RED EYES IN THE RAIN A horned grebe rests in an Interior Alaska pond during a light sprinkle. #Birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

Pic 1: Mamma bear pauses from her dandelion meal to see if I'm to blame for her missing cub. Pic 2: The devilish little ginger (called a cinnamon color-phase black bear) had scampered across the road and into the brush in front of me. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animals

VANITY, THY NAME BE DRAKE: A flamboyant mallard drake seems to conduct a winter symphony orchestra only he can see and hear. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #waterfowl

Flashing its colors, a mallard drake scratches an itch at twilight on a pond not far from home in Southcentral Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #ducks

SHAKE IT OFF: A ring-necked drake dries off in the shallows of a Southcentral Alaska lake. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #ducks

ANSWERED PRAYERS: An Arctic tern, just in from South America, prepares to gobble a stickleback caught in a Southcentral Alaska stream. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

Belted kingfisher with freshly-caught salmon fry. Anchorage, Alaska. #birds #birding #birdphotography #nature

CURIOSITY: A beaver, photographed in Interior Alaska, paddles in close to get a better look at my lens. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animals #naturephotography

GOOFY GIRL: A Barrow's goldeneye hen, photographed in an Interior Alaska pond, shows off during a breeding display for a male (out of frame). #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #BirdsSeenIn2026

A Barrow' goldeneye pair courts on a pond in Interior Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

SPLISH SPLASH: A spectacled eider drake bathes in a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

A male pectoral sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, inflates air sacs in its chest to draw mates in a wetland near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. Pectoral sandpipers winter in South America and migrate north to Alaska each spring to nest and rear young. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

FLAPS DOWN: A long-tailed drake in breeding plumage comes in hot for a landing on a tundra pond in Alaska's high Arctic. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsSeenIn2026

A king eider takes wing from a tundra pond outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #birding #BirdPhotography #nature

FALL FLASHBACK: A bull moose feeds on devil's club leaves deep in Southcentral Alaska's boreal forest. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #moose #naturephotography

WHAT'S UP? A willow ptarmigan peeks over a snowdrift in Southcentral Alaska's Chugach State Park. The park and its mountains overlooking the state's largest city are alive with wildlife-viewing opportunities. #wildlifephotography #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birds #birdphotography #birding

A RED PHALAROPE pauses beneath a high-Arctic ice shelf in a tundra wetland outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #naturephotography

AN AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER forages on the high Arctic tundra outside of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #wildifephotography

DON'T FORGET YOUR EASTER BASKET! Yep, word has it he's on his way. 🐣🐣🐣 #Easter #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #hare

SINGLED OUT: A spruce grouse hen pauses near a trail in eastern Alaska. To achieve the look for this image, I used a 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4X extender for 700mm. The image was shot at f/5.6, ISO 1000, with shutter speed of 1/500. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birds #BirdPhotography

NORTHERN NESTER: A Wilson's snipe pauses on a tussock in the tundra outside of Nome, Alaska. #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #nature