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Favorite Nature Images of the Year - 2022

Welcome to "Favorite Nature Images" a gallery page featuring my own favorite photos, selected from among my best images of the current calendar year. I will continually add images to this page, as the year progresses, so you may enjoy many of my most exciting images of the year. Just click on an image to view an enlargement.


Winter 2022

Snowy Owl (Male) on the wing

 

Snowy Owl (Juvenile) in Flight

 

Snowy Owl (Juvenile) in Flight


Snow Snowy Owl (Juvenile) in Flight


Spring 2022

 

Wood Duck Drake Landing with Reflection

Blue-winged Teal Drake Landing with Reflection

 

 

Green-winged Teal Takeoff


Green-winged Teal Landing

Yellow Warbler Male Singing

Prairie Warbler Male Singing

 

Black-throated Blue Male Singing


Green Heron In Flight

Chickadee and Worm

 

 

 

 



Summer 2022

Sandhill Cranes & Colts

 

Sandhill Crane Feeding Colt

 

Black-bellied Whistling Duck brood


Black-bellied Whistling Duck brood

Camel Herders in Gobi Desert of Mongolia

 

Camel Herders in Gobi Desert of Mongolia

 

Camel Herders - Sunset in Gobi Desert of Mongolia

Camel Herder and Milky Way - Gobi Desert

Eagle Hunter Riding Across Stream with Golden Eagle

 

Two Eagle Hunters on Cliff above River Valley

Two Eagle Hunters on Cliff above River Valley

 

Mongolian Hunter and Eagle in Ger

Mongolian Hunter and Eagle in Ger

Gobi Desert Traveler and Milky Way


Fall 2022

Adult Sharpshin Hawk

 

Adult Sharpshin Hovering Over Prey

 

Merlin (Prairie Race) Swooping at Prey

Adult Redtail Swopping after Prey

Juvenile Male Northern Harrier Hunting

 

 

 

 


 

 

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