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!
October Osprey FledglingPosted: Tue, 29 Apr 2025Lots of Ospreys around thankfully. I heard a House Wren over the weekend, just now a Wilson's Snipe "winnowing flight sound" high overhead. These two birds that were mostly absent here last spring, sadly as they are my favorites. |
Yesterday Pals!Posted: Tue, 29 Apr 2025
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GBH!Posted: Mon, 28 Apr 2025Another Heron, love these guys and gals!
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Another Poster, our Saw-whet BusterPosted: Mon, 28 Apr 2025
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Eagle Nest YesterdayPosted: Sat, 26 Apr 2025I have seen one nestling in there so far in a view through the scope in the living room. Remains to be seen how many total, and they have had three chicks for five years since the nest was built in 2011. When I see an eagle laying down in the nest I add 35 days for incubation and viola! Hatching on April 12th or 13th this season, what a treat. A No-Canada Goose-Year.
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Poster From the PastPosted: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 Thank-you from a school, when we still did assemblies a couple days a week: Max the Golden Eagle
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International Wildlife Film FestivalPosted: Thu, 24 Apr 2025We started doing programs for the IWFF in 1989, then at Holiday Inn, and programs in Kiwanis Park the first of which had no attendees. Mike Maples assembled some people sleeping under the Higgins Street bridge to attend, then a big crew. The first WildWalk Parade, programs on the stage at Caras Park for 12 years. So always fun to have filmmakers assemble at the Raptor Ranch for a visit, and one gal told me "It's the most fun I have ever had!" Love you, miss you, Chuck Jonkel and Barry Gordon, pals forever.
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Thanks, JackPosted: Tue, 22 Apr 2025Our buddy Jack Kirkley of Dillon, recently retired professor at University of Montana Western just found these photos in his archives! Keith Fialcowitz and myself photographing a Great Gray Owl nest in the Big Hole Valley, June 2011. Maybe the next etching will be one from that day...just wait. (Not this one...HA!)
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Brand NewPosted: Sat, 19 Apr 2025The "Art Inertia" has been on pause for 2025 until this week and just finished a drypoint etching of a Snowy Owl on the Washington Coast. Major turmoil over here the last few months, and needed some cheering up. Printmaking does that! So the photos here are printing, painting, and final product- 9 x 12" printing inks plus a little of each: gouache, pencils, pastels.
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House Wren HousesPosted: Fri, 18 Apr 2025Two House Wren nests, cleaning boxes today and hopeful that they return soon. Five pairs nesting here in the yard a few years ago, fewer every year since. Perhaps tough times for these, favorites of our resident songbirds. One with sticks packed in a box, the other on a Aspen tree cavity (my etching...)
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