This might be the most exciting owl find for me since I started birding, an occupied Long-eared Owl nest! I'm extremely excited to watch the owlets grow over the next few months, owlets are a lot of fun to watch as they're much more active than adults during daylight hours. #birds #raptors

3 years ago today I took the best tornado photo I'll ever take in my life. Keota, IA 3/31/23. #weather #tornado #stormchasing

Waldo, Kansas Tornado ropeout 5-28-19. #weather #stormchasing

He was so close to the trail it was like he was begging to be found this morning. #birds #raptors #wildlife

7/8/20 Minnesota

Had another photo session with the mated pair of Long-eared Owls down at the lake tonight. #birds #raptors #wildlife

A Long-eared Owl singing to its mate this evening just after sunset. #birds #raptors

Got the Pontiac tornado, bailed on the storm about 45 minutes before the Kankakee tornado. On the board, but at what cost.

Some life choices have been made. Should know if they were good or bad in about 7 hours.

That's a lot of words to say "Skill Issue". Incredible LARP.

a tornado last night at 10:41pm just south of Wakita, Oklahoma

Kinda figured there would be some warm front tornadoes in Michigan today, but I was not expecting what visually looks to be a violent(EF4+) tornado with an ice covered lake in the foreground...

a tornado last night at 10:50pm between Wakita, and Medford, Oklahoma

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Took a peak at the hellsite and chasers are still mad the SPC doesn't forecast for chasers.

Am oddly agreeable Great Horned Owl last night down at the lake. Of the 12 owl species I've photographed, they're easily the most annoying to work with despite how common they are as they tend to be very skittish. #birds #raptors

I cant seem to stop coming across Long-eared Owls this winter, with ANOTHER that I found yesterday lol. I believe I've found 7-8 individuals just in my home county alone. #birds #raptors

Fox News announces that Trump's tariffs have been struck down. I kept waiting for Swan Lake to start playing.

This WKUK bit is now reality youtu.be/nCP3LZoxABs?...

Been a wild year for Long-eared Owls locally, I cant believe how common they've been! Especially after having usually struggled a ton to find them around here. I had a completely different target this afternoon but this owl ended up being the main event lol. #birds #raptors

Some Eastern Screech Owls from Saturday night. #birds #raptors

Seeing a geriatric punk rock band tonight, the last time I saw them play was over 20 years ago lol. Getting old is weird.

Today I checked in on a Long-eared Owl I'd found last month and it was still there! Also a bonus Short-eared Owl roosting in a bush that I found on my way home(you might have to squint to see him lol). #birds #raptors

Ultimate irony that Pizza Gate is like 90% real and the tinfoilers that were all over it are suddenly ok with it.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

On-call luck finally ended, it was very cold in that turbine.

It was cold at work this morning (I work near Summit)

nvm we in the core. RIP lower 48 Aurora that isn't just a vague muddy glow.

Ok I meant +80Bz lmao. Good chance we're not in the flux rope yet so this can flip right back into our favor after sunset. Crazy numbers coming out of this CME.

Going to be extremely funny when the CME hits tonight and it's +40Bz all night.

Look at my opposition party, dawg. We're cooked.

An Eastern Screech Owl trilling at sunset this evening. #birds #raptors

An Eastern Screech Owl seems to be re-using an old cavity I saw an owl in about 2 years ago. Based on the color morph it could potentially be the same owl, but from my personal experience brown morphs are the most common coloration I've seen locally so there's also a chance it's not. #birds #raptors

TRUMP 2026: SHUT UP OR WE’LL KILL YOU

Found 3 Northern Saw-whet Owls today near Fargo, the cutest little rodent murderers. #birds #raptors

ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead

Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says - car was blocking ice - they told them to move - "something happened' - ICE shot into the car as it was driving away - passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead There is video and I have seen it

Throwback to my first birthday tornado last year on 5/18/25. A rainbow even showed up, downplaying the serious EF3 damage that was down to the town of Grinnell KS by this tornado.

Gen Z gets to have their own Iraq war now, but dumber.

I went back to see if I could get clearer shots of the Long-eared Owl that found yesterday and ended up with some of my favorite shots of the species I've ever taken. #birds #raptors

Thanks to a friend of mine that found them by accident, I was able to get some shots of these two Long-eared Owls just before sunset today making them my first owls of 2026! #birds #raptors

One last owl for 2025, this Eastern Screech Owl that I found this morning. #birds #raptors

RAM is unaffordable because of this stupid thing

Found some more Short-eared Owls tonight, only a few miles from my apartment even. Hopefully they stick around so I can actually get some daylight shots. #birds #raptors

My flight is at gate B64 but I think I'm going to gate B60 instead

Western Bluebird and Bewick's Wren from my short hike this morning. #birds

First time photographing Bushtits, and wow they jumped up my list of of one my favorite birds to shoot. #birds