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How to Photograph Wild Birds from a Seasoned Pro in Wyoming
July 27, 2023 - After photographing wild birds in the Wind River Canyon for most of the last two decades, my award-winning hummingbirds...
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Springtime Wild Turkey Male Display in the Wind River Canyon
April 13, 2023 - It's that time of the year again here in the Wind River Canyon; springtime has finally arrived. We had a very long and b...
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What Ben Franklin Didn't Know About Wild Turkeys
January 13, 2023 - After taking some much needed time away from writing my Wind River Canyon Blog, it's nice to be re-energized. I wasn't s...
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Wyoming Baby Hummingbirds and New Photographs
August 13, 2022 - Hummingbirds are magical creatures. When you've spent as much of your time around these wonderful birds as I have, it's...
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A Spark of Creativity in the Middle of Winter
January 14, 2022 - It's the middle-of-winter here in the Wind River Canyon, but you wouldn't know it from the very mild weather we've been...
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Sandhill Cranes Video from Wyoming shot with Canon M6 Mark 2
November 06, 2021 - One of life's greatest pleasures is driving through the Wind River Canyon. As a resident of the canyon it's a beautiful...
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Wyoming Wild Turkey Babies New Video and a New Hummingbird
August 01, 2021 - During the hot summers here in the Wind River Canyon we have one of the biggest wild birds in North America, and the sma...
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Birds of the Wind River Canyon
July 03, 2021 - A very sweet letter was sent to me recently by a camper that visited the Wind River Canyon. With all the birds nesting t...
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Photographing Hummingbirds with Canon Cameras
March 07, 2021 - A snowstorm came roaring through the Wind River Canyon last week and left a foot and a half of snow, but with warmer tem...
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New Downy Woodpecker Video from Wyoming
February 07, 2021 - A female Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) has spent an easy winter (so far) with us here in the Wind River Canyon....
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Wyoming Hummingbird Christmas Card Gallery 2020
December 05, 2020 - "Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to...
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New Hummingbird Photographs Imaged in Wyoming
August 08, 2020 - Last Monday the temperature reached an incredible 105 here in the Wind River Canyon; the digital thermometer read 103 ye...
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Wyoming's Largest Butterfly
June 06, 2020 - Let me take you away from all the world's problems for just a moment. Follow me into a magical golden canyon where the s...
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Review of Canon EOS M6 Mark 2 with Wildlife Photographs
February 01, 2020 - While this is my usual wildlife blog from the Wind River Canyon here in Wyoming, this time around it contains a little s...
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Bighorn Sheep Monochrome Slideshow Christmas Card
December 07, 2019 - I have always contended that it's easier for people to except monochrome wildlife photography (black and white) as art....
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Wyoming Hummingbird Report Summer 2019
September 07, 2019 - This year spring didn't want to arrive here in the Wind River Canyon or anywhere else in the Rocky Mountains. I had humm...
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The Case of the Curious Towhee and the hummingbirds
August 10, 2019 - When first opening my eyes on a summer's morning here in the Wind River Canyon, my thoughts always drift to the day's wo...
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My Rufous Hummingbirds
July 27, 2019 - Twenty years ago, early one summer morning before our sun burned its way down into this magical place, I was high on a l...
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It Was A Long Cold Wyoming Spring
June 29, 2019 - Having lived in the middle of the Wind River Canyon for two decades now, I have experienced changes in weather condition...
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New Wyoming Hummingbird Photographic Portrait
May 25, 2019 - Three days ago, here in the Wind River Canyon, I scribbled down on a piece of paper the following report.
"I cannot bel...
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Wyoming Wildlife Babies
May 11, 2019 - The Wind River Canyon is a beautiful shade of green right now, the result of lots of snow and some recent rains; snow on...
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Wind River Canyon Spring 2019
April 27, 2019 - I've been on an unintentional sabbatical for quite some time due to illnesses (list - flu, cold, food poisoning, and see...
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Unseen Wildlife of the Wind River Canyon
March 16, 2019 - As travelers race through the Wind River Canyon at highway speeds, little do they know of the wildlife unseen in this is...
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New Wild Bird Images from Wyoming!
February 02, 2019 - There are so many wild bird species that at one time or another make the Wind River Canyon their place of residence (ove...
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The Littlest Hummingbird
January 19, 2019 - In a magical golden canyon, far from the prying eyes of humans, a very small hummingbird is born from a tiny egg high in...
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Stranded in a Blizzard in Wind River Canyon on New Years Eve
January 05, 2019 - Welcoming in a New Year in the Wind River Canyon can present some exciting opportunities for a great celebration, but th...
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Photographing Bird Portraits in Wyoming
November 24, 2018 - In my experience, nothing else in wildlife photography is quite as difficult as trying to image a portrait of a wild bir...
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Wyoming Hummingbirds Annual Summer Report 2018
August 18, 2018 - Each summer, there are many hummingbirds that come to the Wind River Canyon in central Wyoming to nest. "Hummingbird Sea...
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Wyoming Hummingbirds Fighting Photographs
August 04, 2018 - It was one hundred degrees in my favorite high-hide. The breeze blowing in my face felt more like the winds of the Sinai...
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Wyoming Hummingbird Feeding Frenzy Video
July 28, 2018 - Near dark in the Wind River Canyon an event happens that few have ever witnessed. You see, hummingbirds expend so much e...
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New Wyoming Hummingbird Photographs!
July 14, 2018 - There are so many hummingbirds in the Wind River Canyon right now that they drained their favorite feeder in less then 2...
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The Incredible Broad-tailed Hummingbird in Wyoming
May 19, 2018 - The weather here in the Wind River Canyon has been exceptional for the past three months; haven't had the snowblower out...
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Springtime in Wyoming
March 24, 2018 - As the northeast part of our country has been experiencing blizzards after snowstorms (four-in-a-row), out here in Wyomi...
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A Red-tailed Hawk and a New Zoom Lens in Wyoming
March 10, 2018 - Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) are neither rare nor endangered and are widespread from Alaska to Central America,...
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The Wind River Canyon Christmas Card
December 17, 2017 - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the magical Wind River Canyon.
Thank You to everyone that visited my website in...
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My Cabin in the Woods
December 02, 2017 - I saw the Wind River Canyon, for the first time, in my fourteenth year. Coming from the suburbs of Cleveland, "The Heart...
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Hummingbirds of the Wind River Canyon Summer 2017 Observations
September 30, 2017 - In the nearly two decades that I've been photographing and studying the hummingbirds that migrate through or nest in the...
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Early Morning September Wyoming Hummingbird Video
September 23, 2017 - The Wind River Canyon has been described in publications as being magical, but living here is much more so. It's a "beau...
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The Amazing Calliope Hummingbird
September 02, 2017 - The Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) is the smallest breeding bird in the United States, yet they're consider...
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Wyoming Baby Hummingbirds
August 19, 2017 - When you think about the state of Wyoming, and you make your top ten list, hummingbirds probably don't even come to mind...
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Broad-tailed Hummingbirds in the Wind River Canyon!
August 12, 2017 - It's been nearly twenty years since I was high atop that ladder with a paintbrush in my hand, when the first hummingbird...
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Brand New Hummingbird Baby Video Summer 2017
July 29, 2017 - It's that time of the summer again in the Wind River Canyon. The baby hummingbirds are out of their nests and are everyw...
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Orioles Nesting in Wyoming with a Video!
July 09, 2017 - It's been nearly two decades since I put up the first hummingbird feeder in the Wind River Canyon here in the Wild West...
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Wyoming Black-chinned Hummingbirds!
July 02, 2017 - Readers of my Wind River Canyon Blog will already be aware that we have something in the Wind River Canyon that even the...
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Wind River Canyon Blog is Back Online!
June 03, 2017 - As it turns out, it's impossible to work on a creative endeavor at the only "good-public" internet access within a hundr...
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Black-chinned Hummingbirds of the Wind River Canyon
June 11, 2016 - In my wildest dreams, it would not have been possible to imagine Black-chinned Hummingbirds migrating into, and nesting...
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Wyoming Wildflower Education
June 04, 2016 - As the days heat up in the Wind River Canyon, wildflowers begin to bloom, and there is always something blooming till it...
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Visiting the Wind River Canyon
May 21, 2016 - The Wind River Canyon is located in central Wyoming, less than 150 miles southeast of Yellowstone National Park. While n...
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The Most Beautiful Birdsong in Wyoming
May 14, 2016 - In the Wind River Canyon, where I live and write the Wind River Canyon Blog, it's spring when certain birds start to mig...
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Photographing Wyoming Fog in the Wind River Canyon
April 23, 2016 - Typical spring weather middle-of-this-week blasted the Wyoming high-country with snow, but the snowline never reached do...
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Brand-New Mountain Bluebird Photographs with a Story!
April 16, 2016 - In a magical mountain kingdom the King was searching for a birthday gift, a special gift for his Queen. This year above...
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Unique Birds of the Wind River Canyon part 2
April 02, 2016 - One of the highest points of my life has been the time I've spent with the breeding hummingbirds of the Wind River Canyo...
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Stories from the Wind River Canyon
February 06, 2016 - The very first time I laid eyes on the Wind River Canyon, here in the heart of Wyoming, was just after my 14th birthday.
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Conservation Proverbs with Nature Photographs
January 30, 2016 - "If we cannot save the few remaining Wild Places, then what are we doing here anyway?"
"The wilderness is...
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My Life as a Starving Artist
January 09, 2016 - We've already established my half century interest in art history, so how did I end up living in the isolated ecosystem...
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Creativity in Photography
January 02, 2016 - From its very beginnings photography was not about capturing reality. The acknowledged Father of modern American photogr...
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Wind River Canyon Christmas Card
December 19, 2015 - In the heart of the Wind River Canyon, where I live 24-7, the weather is unusual, even for the surrounding area. As a fr...
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When a Wild Animal Acknowledges Your Existence
October 10, 2015 - You're having coffee, and that little bird on the feeder turns it's head, and looks you straight in the eye. For a momen...
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Wildlife Stories from the Wind River Canyon
September 26, 2015 - The day before my birthday this summer an interesting gift was given to me that will never be forgotten, I hope. During...
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My Favorite Hummingbird Photograph of Summer 2015
August 22, 2015 - Every summer we have a group of friends that stop in to party with us here in the Wind River Canyon. They're a colorful...
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Photographing Hummingbird Portraits
August 08, 2015 - Ten years ago, when I made the switch to digital photography, I did so because it seemed the only way to photograph my h...
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New Baby Hummingbird Video from Wyoming
August 01, 2015 - At this very moment, here in the Wind River Canyon, we are up to our cowboy hats in Baby Hummingbirds. With four species...
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Female Hummingbirds of the Wind River Canyon
July 25, 2015 - Of all the various topics in ornithology (the study of birds), the one that's the most confusing is the identification o...
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Photographing Hummingbirds in the Wind River Canyon
July 18, 2015 - Living in the Wind River Canyon is an amazing privilege. Less than a dozen residences are occupied year-round in this va...
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2015 50th Annual Cody Art Show Awards
June 20, 2015 - Last night was the Artists Reception for the 2015, 50th Annual Cody Art Show, presented by the Cody Country Art League....
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Our Disappearing Wilderness
March 21, 2015 - I was reading an article, on the Audubon website, about Habitat Fragmentation this morning; it stirred up interest enoug...
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A Secret of the Professionals
February 28, 2015 - There are many variables that separate a good photograph from a picture that moves me emotionally, and maybe include it...
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How to take Pictures of Birds
February 21, 2015 - We live in the middle of the Wind River Canyon. There is no mail service out here and we have no phone; a few of the nei...
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Hummingbird Photography Primer
February 07, 2015 - Ten years ago, when I made the emotional commitment to try and photograph our nesting hummingbirds digitally, I already...
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Shutterbug Magazine Web Profiles Hogbats Photography
January 31, 2015 - I drove into town to check the mail yesterday, a twenty-five mile round-trip, and the March 2015 Shutterbug magazine had...
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First Broad-tailed Hummingbird Born in Wind River Canyon
January 03, 2015 - Happy New Year from HogbatsPhotography.com and the snowy Wind River Canyon, Wyoming. It's beautiful here this time of th...
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Wind River Canyon Christmas Snowstorm
December 27, 2014 - For those of my readers that have zero experience with a Christmas storm in the Wind River Canyon, let me explain what a...
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PRESS RELEASE
November 29, 2014 - PRESS RELEASE FOR ALL MEDIA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wind River Canyon Website featured in Shutterbug Magazine
Thermopol...
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Last Hummingbird Photographs of Summer
September 13, 2014 - This week's blog contains the last of the Wyoming Hummingbird photographs, from the summer of 2014, that are professiona...
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Hummingbird Portrait
August 09, 2014 - Every summer, for the past eight, I've tried to photograph a portrait of a Hummingbird here in Wind River Canyon, Wyomin...
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Wyoming Hummingbirds
August 02, 2014 - Wyoming Hummingbirds is a topic that I'm quite the self-taught fanatic; I've studied the Hummingbirds in the Wind River...
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More Hummingbird Education
July 12, 2014 - Yesterday was my birthday and I spent last night out with the boys; no, it's not like that, I was out last night with th...
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Hummingbird Education
July 05, 2014 - For the very first time in the Wind River Canyon we will have four different species of Hummingbirds nesting in this iso...
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1st Place at Cody Art Show
June 14, 2014 - The Reception for the 2014 - 49th Annual Cody Art Show, at the Cody County Art League Gallery, in their Chamber of Comme...
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The Kiss
February 08, 2014 - The Kiss
Once in a
while
Take the
time
One small quick
moment
For someone close
to you
Bend
down
to
them
Te...
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Concerning Hummingbirds
February 01, 2014 - I saw my very first hummingbird, before school age, in my grandparents beautiful backyard in Cleveland. They sent me on...
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On Hummingbirds
January 25, 2014 - There are eighteen genus of hummingbirds in the world today, all in the "New World" of North and South America. That mea...
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Little Green Men Rule
August 31, 2013 - There is a simple rule that all photographers should learn; it is easy for anyone, even a novice to learn, and I promise...
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The Fate of Hummingbirds
August 24, 2013 - All the Hummingbirds have headed south by now here in the Wind River Canyon. As soon as the days get a little shorter, a...
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Why I Love Hummingbirds
August 17, 2013 - As a child growing up in the suburbs of Cleveland I saw my first hummingbird at my Grandmother's home in Pleasant Valley...
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Patience Photography
August 03, 2013 - There are a myriad of things you need to know to get close to a wild bird or animal and having them trust you enough to...
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Rufous Hummingbirds
July 20, 2013 - As of this blog, I have already went through seventeen pounds of sugar in the hummingbird feeders; the Bullock's Orioles...
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