Marty’s photo of the day #4679: The face one makes upon hearing that the Orange Idiot has imposed a tariff on your island, uninhabited by humans. (Female elephant seal, photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Antarctica)
Marty’s photo of the day #4678: This is a giant pill millipede, photographed in the rainforest of Borneo.
Marty’s photo of the day #4676: Deb checks out a hawksbill sea turtle. Or is it a hawksbill sea turtle checking out Deb? Either way, I shot this photo last fall off the coast of Bonaire.
Marty’s photo of the day #4675: Here’s a photo from when I was in Australia, working on my first book, “Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents,” That’s Frog, a tawny frogmouth bird on my shoulder. Twenty-some years later, I’m still writing and have what could be the best adventure ever coming up later […]
Spring is here, and that means the nighttime activity is wild at the Essen Wildlife Refuge in Montana. My motion-sensing cameras switch to infrared mode at night, hence the lack of color. The photos from this week: mountain lion, coyote, racoons, fox, deer, bigfoot.
Marty’s photo of the day #4674: Wild turkeys galore! Photographed with a motion-sensing camera at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, Montana.
People can spend a lifetime outdoors in Montana and never see a mountain lion. But as my motion-sensing camera proves, the mountain lion knows you are there. These photos are just a few minutes apart. In the second photo, the lion is looking exactly where Nellie and I are coming from. This was not unexpected. […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4673: It’s good to be a writer/photographer! While working on my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico, I contacted Dr. Armando Rodriguez of Inter American University in Puerto Rico. On a dark and rainy night, he took my wife […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4672: Female elephant seal, photographed on a tiny island near Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #4670: Elon Musk claims empathy is a “fundamental weakness.” Except when he begs for it because of his losses from the Swasticar boycott. The empathy these baby orangutans show for each other demonstrate that they’re far more evolved than Musk will ever be. Photographed in Borneo.
Marty’s photo of the day #4668: I’ve often wished that I could “speak dog” to tell Nellie about the dangers of being queen of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. She never goes outside alone but still managed to tree this mountain lion last night. Fortunately, the mountain lion also agrees that Nellie is queen.
Every night, Deb and I take our dog, Nellie, on a walk around the perimeter of the Essen Wildlife Refuge. This evening, she was off-leash and started barking at something—and her bark was more protective than usual. I put her on a leash and investigated, expecting to find a moose or racoon. Instead, she had […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4665: Penguin race! Photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #4663: With all the devastating damage the Trump regime is doing to the environment, I am so thankful for Montana’s American Prairie, where pronghorns like these can thrive, largely protected from far-right greediness. For those that don’t know, the American Prairie is a wonderful project in central Montana that is […]
