"Red Tail Flyoff"

"Broad-Wing Hawk"

"Curious Muleys"

"Bull Wallow"

"Sunset Hawk"

"Scenic Hawk"

"Badlands Muley"

"Cow and Calf"

"Harrier Hunting"

"Droopy"

"Peek-a-Dog"

"Hanging One"

I kept the camera trained on the raptor until she crouched down to flyoff, then I buried the shutter hoping my auto-focus tracked well.... In this case, it did OK.

A Broad-Wing hawk sits stop a post in the suburbs of Oklahoma City. Dozens of Broad-Wings, Red Tails, and other raptors spend most of the winter in our area providing an outstanding challenge for area wildlife photographers

Mule deer in the Badlands try to figure out what the tourist-photographer is going to do next...

I try not to disturb any animal while I'm photographing them but this was unavoidable. As I snapped the shutter from 50 feet away, he snapped to his feet and grunted his displeasure with my presence.

A Red Tail hawk is silhouetted against a West Texas sunset.

I was amazed when this hawk remained on top of this sign despite driving past it once already. Some days it just goes your way...

This Muley seems to be posing proudly - and he should. The basin near Interior, South Dakota is one of the most beautiful areas of the Badlands.

Spring, 2003 was an amazing trip for me while I photographed the buffalo calving season in South Dakota. This is just one of dozens of scenes I witnessed during that trip.

A Northern Harrier hunts low over the Cheek Ranch near Oklahoma City.

No one knows why, but this young red tail dropped his wings every time he landed while we photographed him. He flew fine so his behavior while resting was even more perplexing.

A 500mm lens was used to play peek-a-boo with the residents of the prairie dog town in the Wichitas.

I caught this Red Tail on his last leg as he took off from a post near I-44 south of Lawton, Oklahoma. During the winter, I-44 is lined with raptors until they migrate back north in the early Spring