A brown bear chasing down a salmon last summer at Katmai National Park, Alaska.

I have been working on a trip report from last summer’s Katmai trip and I’m surprised at how many images I haven’t had a chance to share yet including this one! I have one cabin left for the 2023 Katmai Bear Photo Tour.

The brittlebush (wildflowers) next to one of the waterholes is really looking good right now, so I set up the camera, trigger and flashes in front of it last night and captured images of this hooded skunk among others.
I have shared a number of photos of a hooded skunk this winter with a injured rear leg. I believe this is a different one. The rear legs looks perfectly fine – granted it could have healed. However this one behaves differently. It is more skittish. Where Gimpy as I liked to call it was completely oblivious to my presence, this one will scurry off a short distance and watch. I’ll keep watching for Gimpy.

A Gambel’s Quail from Sunday evening coupled with the amazing background at the Lower Photo Blind.

I had a chance to photograph at the Reflection Blind this morning – good fun! This is a female Lesser Goldfinch on a Parry’s Penstemon.

A couple of striped skunks facing off last night at the waterhole. Judging from the photos, I believe we have three different individual striped skunks coming around. Two of them seem to get along pretty well – mating pair maybe?

A White-winged Dove getting a drink at the Reflection Blind. These guys usually begin showing up a little later into the spring, but this one is definitely an early bird!

Lesser Goldfinches at the Reflection Blind

Between traveling to Alaska and having guests here at the Desert Photo Retreat, I haven’t had a chance to do my own photography. Well, that changed this morning – I spent it at the Reflection Table Blind and had a great time! Gambel’s Quail.