Published in Friday Fotos: Looking Sharp

On August 28, 2015, this photo was published in Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, Friday Fotos: Looking Sharp. This image was taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum during the fall color season in Superior, Arizona.

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Published: Friday Fotos: Salt River Wild Horses

These beautiful and majestic Salt River Wild Horses need your help to stay in their present home along the Salt River area in the Tonto National Forest. Please sign the petition link to keep these wild horses protected from being rounded up. Sign the petition HERE.

This photo was included in the Arizona Highways Magazine's e-book to help the Salt River Wild Horses Management Group.

  

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New Beginnings

Two juvenile Pied-billed Grebes look after each other on one of the ponds at Papago Park in Phoenix, Arizona. They are almost on their own now and their coloring will change by the time they are adults.  But, even at this size, they still try to hitch a ride on their mother's back.

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Published: Bird Image of the Day

Wow! What a great honor to be the Featured BIRD IMAGE OF THE DAY on Nature Photography | Wildlife Photography on Facebook. Thank you so much Nathaniel Smalley! Membership count in that Facebook group is over 29,000! 

May 30, 2015

BIRD IMAGE OF THE DAY by Tam Ryan

Published May 29, 2015 - Friday Fotos

This week in the Arizona Highways Magazine blog, my photo of Lockett Meadow was published in this week's Friday Fotos.

This was the height of the fall season up in Flagstaff.  I accompanied my photographer friend, Vince, who offered to do the driving with his four-wheel drive vehicle.  It was quite an experience traveling the backroads to get up there and an experience that I will never forget.

Lockett Meadow

October 9, 2014

Published May 22, 2015: Friday Fotos

Every week for Friday Fotos on the Arizona Highways Magazine's blog, I try to participate with the theme of the week.   Friday, May 22, 2015 was a Water theme: "Good to the Last Drop."

 Snowy Egret

Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch

Gilbert, Arizona

This image link on Arizona Highways is HERE

Bird Photography

“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.”  ― Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir

Most of these birds were from Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.  The Barn Owl was from the Raptor Free Flight Demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.  The set of three images of Sandhill Cranes were from Whitewater Draw south of Tucson, Arizona.

Black Necked Stilts

Green Heron

Ring-necked Ducks

Ring-necked Duck

American Avocet

Kingfisher

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron

Northern Shoveler

Verdin

Male Ruddy Duck

Pied-billed Grebe

Female Hooded Merganser

Great Egret

Anna's Hummingbird

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Adult and Juvenile Harris Hawk

Barn Owl

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron