Lochsa – Rough Waters – Shooting Day 1
The start of the Mountains. Rivers. Beer. Project, we travelled to the mighty Lochsa River in Idaho to video Jason Shreder of Zoo Town Surfers surfing on Pipeline. The Mountains. Rivers. Beer. Project seeks to combine our love of the outdoors and our love of fermented grains. This result of the project will be 5 […]
Beach Boys and the Birds of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire
Sometimes I dream about escaping the lingering flurries and barely tolerable temperatures of February in Montana. I want to feel sand filtering its way through my toes as the tropical sun ever so gently radiates upon my shoulders (maybe even a little sunburn). I start thinking of Jack Johnson and the Beach Boys tunes – oh yeah, […]
Birds of Melanesia: Tropical warmth for the chilly birder
The temperature has climbed to nearly 25 degrees F this afternoon as the sun finally broke throw the dense inversion layer. Over the Bitterroot, a lone Belted Kingfisher rattled its call as it hovered above the ice-free center of the river. With a quick dive, it captures a hapless minnow. Bursting from the river with […]
Himalayan Dreams – Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
I have often dreamt of leaning against a giant rhododendron on some isolated hillside in the Kingdom of Bhutan while Rufous-necked Hornbills and Beautiful Nuthatches appear within the orbital sphere of my binocular vision. The entire Indian Subcontinent is filled host of both familiar avian shapes and those that seem foreign to this New World-centric birding mind. Culturally India […]
The Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive
The fames Handbook of the Birds of the World series of wonderful volumes is coming online. You can almost hear the glee. Glee, that’s not very manly. How about my brutal grunts of approval.
Northern dilemma..seems that winter as arrived
Heavy, snow-ladened clouds pressed down on the invisible Bitterroot Range. The light was dampened to levels similar to twilight. As I entered the Lee Metcalf National Refuge near Stevensville, the first bird I spotted was my first Rough-legged Hawk perched atop an utility pole (the usual spot). It was a typical plumaged individual with a […]