Mountain Bluebird · Sialia currucoides

Clean compositions, thoughtful light, and the patience to wait for both.

Photographs by Eric Patdu

Nature & Bird Photographer · Omaha, Nebraska

85Photographs

Studies

Three collections

Sandhill Cranes

Half a million cranes take flight, one river bend holds them each night.

Gruidae · 6 photographs

Galliformes

Puffed chests and fanned tails, wild dances along the trails.

Phasianidae & kin · 16 photographs

Hummingbirds

A tilt of the head sets the color alight, then takes it clean out of sight.

Trochilidae · 11 photographs

Five collections

Nebraska

The birds I don’t have to travel for.

10 photographs

Philippines

Where I got my first camera, and started paying attention.

8 photographs

Colorado

Thin air, and birds that do not seem to mind it.

15 photographs

Arizona

Desert canyons, and the birds people cross the country to see.

10 photographs

Costa Rica

Cloud forest light, and more birds than one trip could hold.

17 photographs