by Rich Leighton | Apr 24, 2014
Over the years I’ve seen all kinds of snakes meet their end at the end of a beak, but the other week in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Olympia, WA, I saw a first. A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) I was stalking at the edge of a flooded...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 16, 2014
This was my first close-up encounter Southeastern Arizona corvids as I was photographing wildflowers in the Chiricahua Mountains when I ran into this Mexican jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi). These extremely smart relatives to magpies, crows and ravens are either very...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 13, 2014
A springtime favorite, this trio of western trilliums (Trillium ovatum) was found just yesterday growing next to Lewis Creek in Bellevue, Washington – just south of Cougar Mountain. Like many wildflowers and forbs of moist, damp forests in the Pacific Northwest,...
by Rich Leighton | Apr 1, 2014
After all these years of traveling around the country to get the best photographs of backyard songbirds, today I had to go no further than my back porch just south of Seattle, Washington. There is a bigleaf maple tree that is just going into flower, yet is still...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 30, 2014
Endemic to the United States, the squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella) is an attractive native tree frog is native to the Coastal Plain of the American Southeast, ranging as far north and east as North Carolina (and possibly Virginia) all the way to Texas in the West,...
