A Pine Siskin flashes its true colors 🪶

Pine Siskin, one of perhaps millions across NW Montana this winter?🪶

Here's another year-round resident, the Canada Jay, aka Gray Jay, aka Camp Robber. Yaak Valley, MT #canadajay 🪶

Besides woodpeckers, the tiny Pacific Wren lives in the old forest next door to me year-round. Sometimes it feels like trying to photograph a flying mouse 🙂🪶

Black-backed woodpecker, a winter resident in the old western larch forests of the Yaak Valley, extreme northwest Montana. #blackbackwoodpecker 🪶

Bohemian Waxwing, January 13, Bull River Valley, MT. This was 1 of possibly a few thousand bohemian waxwings I watched for over an hour moving from north to south through the valley, a very surreal experience. 🪶 #bohemianwaxwing

A pileated woodpecker, at home in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶

A pair of trumpeter swans in Sanders County, MT. The swans must like all the open water this winter. #trumpeterswans#winterwildlife#wildlifephotography#wildbirds🪶

I don't get many out-of-town visitors in the winter, but yesterday I had a Northern Shrike stop by! 🪶

Happy New Year! Here's my first photo of the new year, a pileated woodpecker on an old gnarly western larch snag at home in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶

Hooded mergansers were cruising Deep Creek at the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge in Bonners Ferry ID a couple days ago. 🪶 #hoodedmergansers#kootenaiwildliferefuge#bonnersferry#idaho

Cottonwoods line the dike above Deep Creek in the Kootenai NWF at Bonners Ferry ID, a nice morning walk through the falling leaves.

"Dipper Portrait" is the latest addition to my collection at Fine Art America. Dippers are my favorite year-round bird to photograph 🪶
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"Wild Forest Waterfall" is the latest addition to my collection at Fine Art America. Photographed this past June in NW Montana.
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A Canada lynx tripped the sensor on my camera trap in the Northwest Peak Roadless Area, MT, back on August 30. I didn't get any good photos of the lynx with its head up, but this image shows how large those back legs are.

From last June 2 at 2:50 AM, this image of the Northern Lights at a mountain lake in the Purcell Mtns MT is the latest addition to my collection at Fine Art America.
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The latest addition to my collection of images at Fine Art America is this forest landscape titled Hidden Gorge. From NW Montana, standing in this intimate scene made me think of the forest landscapes of Eliot Porter in the Appalachian Mountains. For prints & more
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The latest addition to my collection of images at Fine Art America is this common loon, titled "Loon Wing Stretch". 🪶
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Good morning. Fall in NW Montana, in the land of larch. #falllandscape#landoflarch#northwestmontana#montana

Leaves are falling, winter is calling. From NW Montana. #fall#winteriscalling#lanscapephotography#montana

October Photos: Here's a snow bunting during fall migration in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#snowbunting#fallmigration#birdphotography

October photos: An aerial view of the West Fork Yaak Roadless Area, looking north to British Columbia. #octoberphotos#westernlarch#landoflarch#roadless#dronephotography

October Photos: A rough-legged hawk during a fall snowstorm in the Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#roughwingedhawk#snowstorm#yaakvalley#montana#wild

October photos: Here's a western bluebird, one of many in flock that was migrating through in fall, Yaak Valley, MT. 🪶 #octoberphotos#westernbluebird#yaakvalley#montana#birdphotograph

Good morning. A beautiful moonbow greeted me when I rose the other morning, 6:30 AM in the Yaak Valley, MT. #moonbow#nightsky#yaakvalley#montana#landscapephotography

Good morning. After almost an inch of rain, with the sun setting and the fog rising last evening, I had to launch the drone for a good view! Yaak Valley, MT

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From yesterday's walk, Sheepherder Mtn. Trail in the Roderick Mountain Roadless Area, Purcell Mtns. (the yaakl) MT.
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Good morning. Here's one more from the top of Mount Henry in the Mount Henry Roadless Area, Purcell Mtns. (the yaak) MT.
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A beautiful night up in the Mount Henry Roadless Area, MT. Keep the Roadless Areas Roadless! Comment by Sept. 19. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...