After many years of walking a favorite wood accompanied by the hauting hoots above, yet never seeing more than occasional distant, blurred and silent flight, I was finally gifted a brief encounter a couple mornings ago! #GreatHornedOwl #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Grateful

Wishing a VERY happy birthday to Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon! 64 years around the big campfire in the sky! Heres to you, and many more years in out ears! #HippyBathDay #HappyBirthday #VinceHerman

This week's Life in Nature article! jamesdewaltphotography.com/season-of-th... Moose calving season is upon us here in the Colorado foothills, and it pays to be extra careful when out and about or even just venturing into your own back yard! #NatureBlog #LivingWithMoose

Showing off the prize catch along with some unique talent, nuthatches are the only bird able to climb a tree downwards head first! #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #ShowingOff #PrizeCatch

Enjoying a little fence-line respite from the morning meadow bug hunt... #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography

It's the season of the wobbly ones! SO great to see my first baby moose of the year yesterday afternooon! Looking forward to more to come this year!! #MooseOnTheLoose #WobblyOnes #WildlifePhotography

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My bird ID skills are not the greatest, and unsure as to it's being a Northern Yellow, or a female Wilsons Warbler. A brief pause from its hunt last evening in the willows, thankfully on a branch with a clear view! I'm leaning towards Northern Yellow... #BirdPhotography #NorthernYellowOrWilsons

Fight Club! That little one is gonna be a good scrapper! Quite adorable to watch as the kits practice and hone their skills for adulthood. It's an interesting dynamic to see their interactions with 2 of the kits being clearly about a week or 2 younger than the rest. #WildlifePhotography #FoxFriday

It's always amusing to me that one can spend long periods of time out in nature and not find a single willing wildlife subject, or be dealt a flat, cloudless sky for a sunrise or sunset landscape photo, only to go the grocery store and get blown away... #BirdPhotography #BarnSwallow

Wishing this fuzzy mug a very happy World Bee Day! Thank you, bees, and all the other pollenators out there keeping this whole thing called life on Earth going! #WorldBeeDay #BumbleBee #Pollenators #ItsTheBeesKnees #MacroPhotography

Can't help but hear the fish belting out, "'Cause I'm as free as a bird now And this bird you cannot change"... #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #FreeBird

This week's featured image on the Life in Nature print gallery! www.etsy.com/listing/1613... While they certainly don't exist for our entertainment, they definitely put on a grand show deserving of our accolades! Take a Bow is 20% off through May 24th! #BirdPhotography #BlackAndWhite #printSale

It's a snowy Monday morning here in the foothills and my camera-shy new arrivals are opting to hunker down deep in the willows. I decided to enjoy some time in last year's files instead. I love the incredibly large, bold and sassy personality packed into such a tiny "package". #BirdPhotography

This week's Life in Nature article! jamesdewaltphotography.com/family-time/ A look at an interesting twist on fox den life and alloparenting! #NatureBlog #FoxLife #Alloparenting

A little fun from this morning's visit to the den. A little less frolic these days, and a little more on honing the life lessons and hunting skills, so activity was a little low. That said, still a little time for play... #WildlifePhotography #FoxFriday

"Mama, you is holding all the tensions in your neck! Just relax and let me take care of that for you..." #WildlifePhotography #SpaDay #MassageTherapy

Wishing a very hoopy birthday to Michael Kang of The String Cheese Incident!! Best wishes for your next trip 'round the wheel, and many, many more to come! #HappyBirthday #HippyBathDay #HeresToYou

You gotta have the password to get in the fort! #WildlifePhotography #RedFox #WhatsThePassword

This week's featured image on the Life in Nature online print gallery! Getting excited to visit these wooly wonders in the high country soon! Enjoy 20% off all sizes and print mediums through 5/17! www.etsy.com/listing/1868... #MountainGoats #WildlifePhotography #PrintSale

A long-time favorite spot to just sit, think and let the waters carry away my thoughts. The local beavers have put in some astounding work over the last year, and the valley is flooding, becoming a beautiful natural wetlands area! #LandscapePhotography #BeaverCountry #NaturalWildfireMitigation

An endearing moment from today at the den! After no action for a couple days, and theorizing that the mama's moved the den, they (at least the larger 5) are back, so the mom's may have simply split the litter up. Grateful for a little more time before they're gone! #WildlifePhotography #MothersLove

While this week focused on the new life of spring, without the Moms all would be for naught. As I avoid the socials on the weekends, sending out an early heart-felt Happy Mothers Day to all the moms in the world! You make this whole thing happen! #WildlifePhotography #FoxFriday #ThankYouMoms

This little nature baby took its newly learned herd duties with absolute seriousness. While the mothers saw no threat and enjoyed their graze, the little one made sure to keep a sharp eye on the paparazzi for any signs of nefarious behavior. #WildlifePhotography #NatureBabies

Sticking with this week's theme of new life on the mountain with the bighorns! It's inspiring to see these little ones following in the parent's footprints (or hooves, as it were...) as they navigate the rocky cliffs and mountainsides of their summer home. #WildlifePhotography #NatureBabies

More from the nature babies files, and some sunny smiles from the mountain! #WildlifePhotography #NatureBabies #SunnySmiles

This week's featured image on the Life in Nature print gallery! www.etsy.com/listing/6622... Reflecting on some Colorado grandeur with an iconic view from national treasure and crown jewel, Rocky Mountain National Park! #Landscapes #NationalTreasure #RMNP

Spring is for the nature babies! Looking back at an amazing afternoon and evening in the heart of Colorado moose country, and looking forward to starting to see this year's wee, gangly sprouts in a few weeeks! #WildlifePhotography #MooseMonday #NatureBabies

"I'm just gonna stand here and be crushingly cute while my brother gets the snot chewed out of him by one of the big kids..." #WildlifePhotography #UrbanWildlife #FoxFriday #BabyFoxes #NatureBabies

RAWR! Just some fierce, floofy fun for your Fox Friday! #WildlifePhotography #UrbanWildlife #FoxFriday #RAWR

"MOOOOOOOM!!!!" #WildlifePhotography #UrbanWildlife #PlayTime #MomLife

Canonball!! "Mayhem" is quite apt when it comes to describing the morning den routine. From group tussles, to games of chase and ring-around-the-rosie, to playing with various toys in the yard, there is never a dull moment with 7 kits. Some of the best moments of being a wildlife photographer...

7v1! This is apparently an alloparenting den with two females rearing the litter. Today was my first time meeting the second, smaller female (seen here). The kits were excited to see her, and everyone piled in for a bit of breakfast before returning to their mayhem. #WildlifePhotography #RedFox

The kids have apparently found a bagel dog toy... This one wasn't quite sure what to do with it this morning at the den entrance... #WildlifePhotography #UrbanWildlife #PlayTime #Adorbs

Rolling with that Foxey energy with this week's featured image on the Life in Nature print gallery! A look back at the first den I photographed over 10 years ago! Enjoy 20% off all sizes and mediums through 5/3! www.etsy.com/listing/9578... #WildlifePhotography #Nurture #MothersLove #PrintSale

I have been invited to the very special treat of a fox den on local private property! Capturing ideal images of the littles has been challenging, but Mama has been quite accommodating with portraits. Can't wait for future visits and the opportunity to watch the little ones grow! #WildlifePhotography

Sometimes, when there hasn't been much action for the day, and you're busy watching the cormorants, pelicans, herons and other life in the wetlands, you hear that distinct splash, and you remember why you headed all the way out there from your home in the mountains to begin with... #BirdPhotography

Psssst! Wanna buy a watch? #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #RiparianIcon

Nothing like a relaxing float on a warm spring evening... #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #LifeOnTheWater

While I'd hoped to capture images of this one devouring a large trout, the fly-by as it headed off to try other waters satisfied my hopes for some action after many unsuccessful dives. #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #DoubleCrestedCormorant

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Not one for sticking around and letting their photo be taken, I was glad to have captured this frame as I walked the wetland shoreline. A fraction of a second later he was gone with that iconic warning call echoing through the air to every other creature in earshot. #BirdPhotography #Killdeer

Such an amazing gift to have such world class music in our little mountain town! A couple from last evening with the one and only Stanley Jordan and Nederland, CO's The Caribou Room! #WorldClass #StanleyJordan #GuitarVirtuoso #Blessed #ConcertPhotography

Sometimes when you come down from the mountain at the end of a glorious day of communion with the heavens and earth, they give you a farewell kiss goodbye. #LandscapePhotography #Sunset #ColoradoRockies #MountainLiving

A little more high country summer dreaming this morning with a heavy dose of majesty from one of last summer's awe-inspiring evenings in the high meadows and krumholtz! #WildlifePhotography #BullElk #MountainLiving

Every year about this time I start to get the itch. While there are still a couple months to go, I begin to yearn for a return to the warm summer days in the home of my soul, my sanctuary and church, sacred ground where the heavens and the firmament join in glorious revelry. #LandscapePhotography

A lord of the granite nomads #WildlifePhotography #BighornSheep #GraniteNomads

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Kicking off the week with a little fuzzy love from a cloudy day on top of the world! #WildlifePhotography #MountainGoats #GoatLife #FuzzyLove

Nothing like nailing that ultra-sexy fashion photo-shoot wet head toss look from your models! Wishing you all a happy Friday! Shake off that work week and fly your way into a great weekend! #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Osprey #ShakeItOff