There was a time, when a news event occurred, I was there. When I called my wife to tell her, I was going to that news event, she would asked "how many children were involved" - that was the way we gaged how serious the event was, by the number of children involved. Finally, I discovered photographing birds was my escape - my theraphy. And I became fixed on the tropical birds near our Florida home. And then when we moved back to Oklanoma, I wanted to film local birds - birds in "my backyard". It is amazing how birds you can find near your home. I do not photograph birds flying for the most part, I do "portraits" of them. I want them in their settings.
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A bird in the hand.
Pink Flamingo.
Sandhill Cranes.
Great Blue Heron chick.
Egret
Egrets
Egret.
Wood stork.
Sandhill cranes.
Anhinga dries its feathers.
Anhinga after spearing a fish.
Anhinga feeds her chicks.
March wren.
Blue bird.
Burrowing owl.
House sparrow ready to feed chicks.
After catching a frog, a house sparrow waits to feed its chicks.
Eagle feeding chick.
Eagle.
Turkey Vulture.
Black Vulture.
Roseta Spoonbill.
Cowbird
Yellow headed blackbird.
Yellow fly catcher
Cardinal
Cardinal.
A hummingbird flies through a lavender plant.
Hummingbird feeding on milkweed plant
Hummingbird
Hummingbird.
Turkey
Pelican fishing.
Pelican fishing.
Pelican at Pelican Rescue Center undergoing rehab treatment.
X-ray of the fishing gear eaten by a pelican at Miami's Pelican Rescue Center.
A volunteer checks a free range chicken in Key West, Florida. The birds have been long a problem.
Hummingbird moth.
Doves
Doves
