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I spent 32 years at The University of Iowa between 1970 and 2002. In 2002 I retired and moved to Worcester, MA, with my wife Linda. I now enjoy nature photography and photograph almost all forms of nature, including birds, animals, insects, and plants. I post many pictures here. My wife is an artist and you can find a link to her home page below.

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When I started birding in 1989 I decided to keep my life list by photographing the birds I saw. Below are links to five different albums. The first shows my life list of North American birds. Where possible I show both the male and female bird in the same picture. If the female looks different from the male and I don't have a picture with both birds in it, the male appears in my life list and the female appears in a separate list of female birds. I also have a separate life list of birds in flight. I have separate lists of Australian birds and Galapagos birds. Here are links to my five lists of birds:

Life list of North American Birds

Life list of North American Female Birds

Life list of North American Birds in Flight

Life list of Australian Birds

Life list of Galapagos Birds

The following link is to an album that shows my life list of dragonflies and damselflies. I show both male and female when I have photographed both sexes, and I also show a mating pair if I have photographed one.

Life List of Dragonflies and Damselflies

The following two links show my life lists of butterflies and moths. Just like birding, keeping track of how many different species I have seen has become a hobby.

Life list of Butterflies

Life list of Moths

Here is a Link to Linda's home page:

Linda's Home Page

Linda and I frequent various nature centers where we bird and I take pictures. Below is a list of places we have visited this year. I have selected a few pictures from each place to share. I have created separate albums for the four places we visit most often and a separate combined album for all other places. Click on the name to see the album. The first note describes how to navigate through an album.

As an observer of nature I have noticed a serious decline on the numbers of birds and insects. Not many years ago we saw numerous butterflies, dragonflies, and other insects on our walks. The numbers are in serious decline and we all should be very worried.

The two places we visit most often:

New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill (formerly Tower Hill Botanic Garden), Boylston, MA

Mass Audubon's Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Worcester, MA

The two places we visit frequently during spring migration:

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newburyport, MA

Other nearby places we have visited this spring:

Westborough Wildlife Management Area, Westborough, MA

River Bend Farm, Uxbridge, MA

Acton Arboretum, Acton, MA

Mass Audubon's Ipswitch River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, MA

Mass Audubon's Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Marblehead, MA

McLaughlin Woods, Boston, MA

Nahanton Park, Newton, MA

Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge, Harvard, MA

Mass Audubon's Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA

I created all of the photo albums using a very old version of jalbum. Each album opens to a page of thumbnails, and if you float your mouse over a thumbnail you will get information about the picture. If you click on a thumbnail you will see an enlarged picture. You can navigate to the next large picture by clicking on the right third of a picture; you can navigate to the previous picture by clicking on the left third of a picture, and you can return to the thumbnails by clicking on the middle third of the picture. The --> at the upper right of an album page starts a slide show of the album pictures.

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is a favorite spot for birding during spring migration. It is located in Newburyport, MA, which is a fabulous tourist town. The refuge itself is on Plum Island, which sits between Parker River and the Atlantic Ocean. Many shorebirds visit the refuge during migration as do many warblers and other migarating birds.

Mount Auburn Cemetery in a wonderful place to spend a few hours. In addition to being an historic place, it is a botanic garden and it is free. The grounds boast numerous flowers, shrubs, and trees, and I have included a few pictures of the cemetery in the album in addition to my nature pictures.