Birds, Nature, and Photography
Favorite Bird Photos of the Year — Part I
2021 was my most productive bird photography year yet, and it got off to a good start from January through March
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
In 2021, my passions for birds and bird photography continued to grow. This first article of a series about birds photographed during the year includes specimens seen in Minnesota during the first quarter. In upcoming articles, I plan to share images of birds from South Dakota, North Dakota, California, Utah, and Arizona, as well as Minnesota.
While I hiked and snowshoed all winter long, sometimes I left the camera home most days or photographed landscapes instead of birds. Even when not photographing…
