Marty’s photo of the day #3982: If you follow my posts, you know that I often post pictures of exotic animals I have photographed all over the world. Today is dedicated to one of the least exotic animals I’ve photographed. But she’s soooooo cute! (Photographed on the Essen Wildlife Refuge in Montana)
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Mother’s Day Moose
Marty’s photo of the day #3974: Happy Mother’s Day! (Photographed on the Essen Wildlife Refuge, in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana)
Cold weather frog
Marty’s photo of the day #3972: I photographed this frog two years ago in western Montana. I consulted multiple frog identification sources and never came up with a perfect match. That said, I’m going to go with “northern leopard frog” and assume the slight differences are due to the cold weather and how early in […]
Hooded merganser
Badger side-eye
Marty’s photo of the day #3957: A little Tuesday morning badger side-eye for you. (Photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana)
Artsy hummingbird
Marty’s photo of the day #3927: Today I go artsy, with a hummingbird I photographed a few summers ago. (Photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana)
Killdeer and the pandemic
Marty’s photo of the day #3919: I photographed this killdeer on June 20, 2020. Deb and I had rented the Hogan Cabin that weekend, which is a Forest Service cabin in western Montana. Other than the birds and the mountain flowers, what I remember most about our visit was that it was our first time […]
Muskrat
Steller’s Jay
Western sandpipers
Marty’s photo of the day #3913: Today we go artsy with three western sandpipers on a pothole lake in Montana’s Prairie Reserve.
Feeding time!
Marty’s photo of the day #3912: Barn swallows, photographed last summer in Montana’s Prairie Reserve.
Like the old summer cabin
Marty’s photo of the day #3911: Deb, Nellie, and I are returning to Montana’s Prairie Reserve this summer. We reserved the same yurt as last year, but for a longer stay. Being able to rent a yurt kind of reminds me of when I was a kid in Minnesota and having the family cabin to […]
Badger
Red-winged blackbird
Marty’s photo of the day #3891: Red-winged blackbird, photographed in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
A toad
Ground squirrels at play
Sunset on the prairie
Marty’s photo of the day #3861: Sunset in the Prairie Reserve (Montana), photographed this past September. Deb and I are looking forward to returning the Prairie Reserve again this year.
Snow geese
Marty’s photo of the day #3856: Here’s a photo from a few years ago. Snow geese, migrating near Freezeout Lake (Montana).
Swallowtail Butterfly
Marty’s photo of the day #3855: For all those already dreaming of summer, here’s a swallowtail butterfly, photographed this past summer in Montana.
Nellie and the elk
Marty’s photo of the day #3809: My dog, Nellie, gets credit for this shot. Yesterday I took her outside for a pee break and she immediately sniffed the air and charged into the woods. I assumed it was just her five-times-daily inventory of trees containing squirrels, but then she barked and froze. Just ahead of […]



















