Through Handlens and Binoculars

I expect that this will be the last of my posts on my trip this April to the Great Basin Desert. Of the four deserts in North America, the G...

On one of my final days in Nevada last month, I made a quick stop at Cave Lake State Park , which was just a few miles down the road from ou...

Still trying to get caught up from my Nevada trip last month, so here is another set of photos with little commentary. These photos were tak...

As if we couldn't get enough birding in during our work days at Spring Valley, nearly every day on the way back to the hotel we stopped ...

There were several sparrows that I hoped to see while in Nevada, and luckily I saw most of them. One (not pictured) was the very drab Brewer...

While in Nevada recently, I had the opportunity to shoot photographs of two of the state symbols. The state bird of Nevada is the Mountain B...

The part of Nevada in which I was working recently consists of a series of mountain ranges and valleys oriented north to south. The small to...

One of the highlights of my trip to Nevada was seeing a Western Burrowing Owl ( Athene cunicularia hypugaea ), a small species of owl found ...