My favorite photo - a newly fledged Bald Eagle has a feisty American Kestrel take a ride for a second, taken at the river behind the house.





Pileated Woodpecker pair in the front yard. New photos nearly every day on our Blog page!
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Things are always hopping at the Raptors of the Rockies organization. We're taking care of the birds and maintaining their enclosures, we're conducting raptor programs at local schools and organizations across Western Montana, art is flying out of the studio, we're taking photos and shooting video, we're out in the field birding and/or doing research, and much, much more. To help you keep up with the flurry of activities happening at Raptors of the Rockies, we're blogging on a more-or-less daily basis and our most recent posts are listed below. Enjoy! Summer-izingPosted: Tue, 24 Jun 2025With the new neighbor's 80-foot warehouse built up against our fence/enclosures we were forced to move half the birds, including the two Peregrines. The new Falconhouse is cooking in these summer temperatures so forced to make some modifications. First, shade cloth, then insulation across the inner roof, fans running all day and even planting relocated trees in the front for shade. Shade? So difficult.
| Painting AwayPosted: Sun, 22 Jun 2025It is always a treat trying to figure out how to color that first run print, and what you can't hear here is the jazz on the stereo!
| New PrintPosted: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 Just made this drypoint etching, and on the "new" printing press upstairs. "Rough-leg" and printing inks, gouache, pencils 11" x 13". Tried a little background texture with steel brushes, always want to experiment.
| Raptors And Art CampPosted: Fri, 20 Jun 2025Raptors And Art week, our 22nd at the Missoula Art Museum, me and Bev Beck Glueckert. Sib, Sonora and Wes falcons posing day one, then owls Simon, Portia and Little Billie on Tuesday, sketching sessions. Now, life-size paper mache sculptures, including 5 Great Horned, 3 Barred, 1 Saw-whet, 2 eagles, 1 kestrel, and 1 flamingo (that counts!) Plus 1 Zombie and 1 Elephant Owl.
| 2005 and 2025!Posted: Wed, 18 Jun 2025Marilyn and Sibley in 2005, Marilyn and Bob 2025! Bob Ehrhart and Marilyn MacGregor, long-time best Raptor Backer Pals and now in Oregon!
| Tonight!Posted: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 | Dog and FalconPosted: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 In the living room! My welded steel Peregrine sculpture and Nico heading for the kitchen.
| "New" Printing PressPosted: Thu, 12 Jun 2025Thanks Cindy Knutsen for the big printing press, now installed upstairs and my trial run of a Rough-legged Hawk drypoint etching. Donated by Cindy and bought some parts, now ready to rock and roll, 19 inches across instead of the little one for 30 years, 12 inches!
| CardsPosted: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 A hundred or so, 20 new ones and all at Rockin Rudy's!
| BridgePosted: Fri, 06 Jun 2025Almost every year Tom's little bridge over the slough has started floating, held tight with ropes and not washing away. Well, thank you Pat Johnson for installing more cinder blocks to keep it above the water. This one with the dogs, just inches from floating. Thanks Pat and a river walk every day.
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