All of the prints are archival giclees produced by us and in our studio. The term "giclee" refers to the printing process. This process provides wonderful color accuracy and detail without the dot pattern of an offset lithograph. David scans the original and uses photoshop to correct colors. Color correcting is a skill and can go quickly or take days of trying. We have a large format Epson printer and use Epson's archival inks on acid-free Somerset Velvet paper. The inks are light-fast and under normal household conditions will not fade for 100  years.

The raptors seldom frequent my backyard but its always a special thrill to have such a visitor! We have big windows in our living room with recliners right there! Perfect seating for all the woods activity every morning and evening.  

Barred owls live in our woods. We hear them often and see them occasionally. A biologist friend of mine has seen them fish but the closest I’ve come to that is seeing a barred owl pluck an unlucky frog off the edge of our pond. He watched the pond from a dogwood and made several tries before he scored his breakfast. Another time, I watched a barred owl bathing in the shallow end of that same pond. He performed the act just like any songbird bobbing and spreading his wings and then drying off in the dogwood above.  These moments make my day!

Both the barred owls and broad-winged hawks occasionally monitor my feeders.  My usual customers vanish or gang up to drive the intruder off. Everybody can take part in this mobbing but the crows and bluejays are most effective!  We live just within the woods so the peregrine that landed in the dogwood was a little out of his usual habitat. He spent a long time just hang’n out near the bird feeder before moving on. I had time to get binoculars and counted myself very lucky to see him!

The raptors are not as accessible as songbirds or even many waterbirds but they are very visible in the air above us and definitely make an impression. They are less approachable than the songbirds and so seem to be of some more primal and mysterious world.