Raptors Meet and Greet
GreatBirdPic member Bob was taking BIF shots of a couple of raptors in Star, Idaho. First he saw a Red-tailed Hawk. Note that the red on the tail is on…
It’s Been Fun
It was Day 10 of our Red Hill Birding Tour of South Africa and time to move north. We had driven a counter-clockwise route around the southern tip of the…
Touch Down and Take Off
Thank goodness for modern cameras and their ability to take many shots per second. When birds are landing or taking off there is a split second in which they can…
GreatBirdPics’s Bird Photograph of the Week and a Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to my wonderful wife Karen, who has constantly supported me in so many ways, including my bird photography efforts and this website. This picture from Costa Rica says…
Suggested Change
Sometimes as I review images in the Latest Pics section I’ll spot something on an image and suggest to the author to make a change. Take a look at the…
This and That
Here are a couple of items that might be of interest you: Cornell University’s Birds of the World website has just added a “Phylogeny Explorer.” You can explore every Order,…
Happy 15,000th!
I’ve been watching the count of photos shared by the GreatBirdPics community go up and up, and we recently hit a new milestone. Believe it or not, in the last…
Into The Karoo
On the eighth day of our Red Hill Birding tour of South Africa we arrived at the most unique lodging of our trip – the Klein Cedarberg Private Nature Preserve.…
GBP Bird Photographs Of The Week – 2/27/26
Sometimes I can’t select just one GreatBirdPic Photograph of the Week. I kept flipping back and forth between these two images below, trying to decide which one was better, until…
Photographing Flocks of Birds
Sometimes I enter an area where there are so many birds that it’s impossible to count them. This happens most often on a shore where flocks of birds come to…
Bombs Away
Sometimes when you’re taking a picture of a bird something unexpected happens and you just keep shooting. This occurred to me while staying at the Klein Cedarberg Private Nature Reserve…
Indian Kite
One of the benefits of GreatBirdPics.com is that not only do we get to look at beautiful photos of birds from around the world, we also have an opportunity to…