Baby bighorns! 😍 #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

A red-tailed hawk looking down to examine the prey it has hidden in the grass. #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

I can see one of the downy woodpecker chicks!!!! #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

This bald eagle was ready for its close-up! laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/mag... #birds #nature #wildlife 📷

Hey, cutie. (bull snake) #nature #wildlife 🐡

While I was watching frogs and belted kingfishers at a pond, a mink swam by. I didn't notice it had a fish until I looked closely at my photo. #wildlife #nature 🐡

Over at the downy woodpecker nest. #birds #wildlife #nature 🐡

A striped skunk approaches. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/a-s... #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

My new friend. #wildlife #nature

I can see one of the downy woodpecker chicks!!!! #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

Baby bighorns! 😍 #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

Looks like it's fish for breakfast again. #birds #nature #wildlife

Juvenile great horned owls. #birds #owls #nature #wildlife 🐡

Happy Father's Day! In honor of all the great dads out there, here's a male downy woodpecker bringing food back to his nest. The male and female take turns incubating the eggs and then feeding the chicks. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

First osprey chick sighting of the year! #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

"Why is no one putting fish in my mouth?!" - juvenile belted kingfisher #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

Canada goose with her goslings. #birds #nature

The downy woodpeckers are bringing so much food back to the nest! #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

A striped skunk approaches. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/a-s... #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

I love his fuzzy little antler nubs so much. 😭 laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/a-s... #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

Tip: When photographing cliff swallows, wear a hat. Or a rain slick. You don't need a rain slick to view cliff swallow photos, though. Prints and full-res preview here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/roo... #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

Okay, here's another great blue heron photo. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/the... #birds #birdoftheday #wildlife 🐡📷

Screaming Eagle Why is this bald eagle screaming, you ask? Because it was being harassed by three ospreys. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/scr... #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

"Where have you been?!" "I was out getting food for the chicks. See?" "Took you long enough. And I asked you to get beetle larvae, not whatever those are." Downy woodpeckers. Prints and full-res preview here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/foo... #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

The chicks need more room! A female downy woodpecker removes wood from a tree cavity nest. This was shortly after the chicks hatched. I guess it was crowded in there. #birds #wildlife #nature 📷🐡

I don't think I've been posting enough great blue herons recently. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

I almost didn't see this rattlesnake on the trail. The snake pretty much ignored me, but the encounter still made me happy that I'd decided to invest in a pair of snake gaiters. #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

I spotted a spotted sandpiper, but not before the spotted spotted sandpiper spotted me. #birds #nature #wildlife

A red-winged blackbird singing its strange song. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

A flying fish for #flyday. #birds

A male downy woodpecker peeks out from a tree cavity nest. The woodpecker couple have started bringing food to the nest. I think the eggs hatched around June 9/10, but I can't see or hear anything yet. (I'm keeping my distance and using a long lens to photograph them.) #birds #birdoftheday 🐡📷

I love his fuzzy little antler nubs so much. 😭 laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/a-s... #wildlife #nature 🐡📷

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The leaves in the foreground framed the great blue heron nicely AND helped me hide while I captured this photo. #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” - Frank Herbert, Dune

I didn't actually notice the juvenile great horned owl until I was right next to it. Because it was so close to the trail, I was able to snap a couple of very close-up photos as I passed. (See my last post for more details.) laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/up-... #birds #owls 📷🐡

Moist Owlet This wet juvenile great horned owl was right next to a trail by the river. It was calm and didn't appear injured - just wet. Owls can have a hard time flying when they're soaked... (1/3) laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/moi... #birds #nature #wildlife #owls🐡📷

Mule deer in spring. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/dee... #wildlife #nature

A cliff swallow building a nest! There's a huge colony of these birds, and they've just moved into an area very near the trail. #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡

American bullfrogs have beautiful eyes. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/bul... #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

Bald eagles really know how to make an entrance. #birds #nature #wildlife 📷

An osprey passing by. #birds #nature #wildlife

American bullfrogs have beautiful eyes. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/bul... #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

Single Male Starling ISO Mate A common starling fans his wings and calls out in what appears to be the typical mating display of the species. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/sin... #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡📷

Shift change! Male and female downy woodpeckers take turns incubating the eggs. Here, the female is outside the nest and is about to switch places with the male. #birds #nature #wildlife 📷🐡 Prints here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/dow...

Giddyup! While I was photographing this bullsnake, a grasshopper started climbing on it. Eventually, the grasshopper jumped off the snake's head and hopped away. laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/gid... #wildlife #invertebrate #nature🐡📷 🐍

Baby!!!! (bighorn sheep) #wildlife #nature

My husband just gave me a tip on where to see skunk kits. He's the best.

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!