Marty’s photo of the day #4699: This photo goes back to 2014, when Lara Flynn Boa was just a snakeling. Now she’s almost six feet long. It shows the importance of introducing a snake to the wonders of wine* early in its life! *Not really.
Snake wine
Bluebirds
Marty’s photo of the day #4698: Bluebirds—female and male—photographed in Yellowstone National Park.
Damn branch!
Marty’s photo of the day #4697: I had to work hard to get into position to photograph this toucan. In the rainforest, there is almost always a branch in the way! (Photographed in Costa Rica).
Butterfly pea
Marty’s photo of the day #4696: I photographed this butterfly pea in a wet tropical forest in Australia. I don’t think it’s native to Australia, however.
Crossing to Antarctica
Marty’s photo of the day #4695: Deb and I have occasionally talked about returning to Antarctica, but we recently learned that getting to Antarctica by crossing the Drake Passage (famous for the roughest seas in the world) has largely become a thing of the past. Instead, people fly down to Antarctica and then get on […]
Watch your hands!
Marty’s photo of the day #4694: I photographed this while backpacking in Borneo. I haven’t identified the species. While it’s probably harmless, it’s still one of the many reasons why Deb and I had to be careful about accidentally touching things during our adventure.
The alligator close-up
Zambezi Sunset
Spanish Ibex ver 2003
Marty’s photo of the day #4691: I shot this Spanish Ibex photo back in 2003, with my first digital camera (a Sony Mavica that recorded onto a mini CD). That camera was great for close-up photos of stationary objects, but not so great for distant or moving objects. Through the years, my photo processing programs […]
Moonshot
Marty’s photo of the day #4690: Last night there was a stunning moon over the mountains. I grabbed my camera and tried a few handheld shots. It’s fun when the camera sees what the human eye can’t: all I saw was the white, but the camera saw the entire moon.
Yellow-billed stork
Velvet swampsnake
Lousewort
Ring-tailed lemur
Marty’s photo of the day #4687: Several years ago, I presented my show, Around the World in 90 Minutes, at the Oglebay Good Zoo in West Virginia. I have mixed feelings about zoos, which I won’t get into here. After my show, I got a private behind the scenes tour of the zoo that included […]
One of my all-time favorite radio interviews
Marty’s photo of the day #4686: I came across this today while going through my photo files, looking for a wildlife photo to post. Obviously, it’s not wildlife, but it was wild. It’s from one of my favorite radio interviews of all-time. I was on a book tour, in 2016, for my second book, Endangered […]
Elk hide and seek
Marty’s photo of the day #4685: Playing hide and seek with a big bull elk, last summer, on the Essen Wildlife Refuge.
More saw-whet owl cuteness
Marty’s photo of the day #4684: Deb and I have been hearing saw-whet owls in the forest surrounding our house during the past few weeks. With that in mind, here’s a cute saw-whet owl that landed on our front deck steps in the summer of 2021.
First moose of 2024
Marty’s photo of the day #4683: Yesterday Deb (wife), Nellie (dog), and I were on our evening walk, following the border of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. Nine out of ten times, Nellie will see wildlife before either Deb or I do, but she was off in a different direction when I spotted this big moose […]
Surprise!
Marty’s photo of the day #4682: A leopard seal surprise. Photographed along the coast of Antarctica.
Saw-whet owl visitor
Marty’s photo of the day #4681: Deb and I have been hearing saw-whet owls in the forest surrounding our house during the past few weeks. That sent me digging into my photo files to find this cute saw-whet owl that paid us a visit—landing on our front deck steps—in the summer of 2021.