Day 8 of my “12 Days of Drawings” Sale! “Lucky” graphite on paper 8×11″ I first met “Lucky”, a eurasian black/cinereous vulture, when he was in an enclosure near the research camp at Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve. I was allowed in with him and got some great […]
This will be a occasional, on-going series of images of my favorite places in Mongolia. Baga Gazriin Chuluu means “Small Earth/Land Rocks”. There is also an Ikh Gazriin Chuluu (Great Earth Rocks), but I haven’t gotten there yet. There are more photos of Baga Gazriin Chuluu, including the […]
Species: Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) Weight, length: Cinereous vultures are the largest eurasian bird of prey and one of the largest flying birds. They are 98–120 cm (39–47 in) long with a 2.5–3.1 m (8.2–10 ft) wingspan and weigh 7–14 kg (15–31 lb) Conservation Status: Near Threatened (IUCN […]
I’m going to start a short series for the holidays of “albums” with images I’ve shot of various types of animals and species that I’ve seen on my travels to Mongolia. First up are the birds I saw on this latest trip in August 2011. If you see […]
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the Sketchbook Pro app for my iPad. It works well for fast location sketching, but I’ve been wanting to see how I could use it for more finished work. I keep the iPad with me in the living room and […]
The next ten or so posts will cover all the places I visited on this past trip, some familiar and well-loved and some new. The two-week trip with Pokey emphasized the best wildlife viewing places that I’ve found. We headed west out of Ulaanbaatar on a sunny August […]
It’s clear that one lesson we, as a species MUST learn, is to share. All of these animals have just as much right to be here as we do. As they go, in the end, so shall we. I’ve never made a point, for the most part, of […]
I happen to love vultures, who form a big part of nature’s clean-up crew. Cinereous vultures are the largest raptors in Eurasia. They can weigh up to 30 lbs and have a 10′ wingspan. As it turns out, Ikh Nartiin Chuluu is a “hotspot” for them, with almost […]
Even though I only spent two days there last year, Baga Gazriin Chuluu was a place that I really looked forward to visiting again. One of the best experiences was visiting the ger of Yanjmaa, who had made boortz soup from scratch for us and served me a […]
Travelers get attached to a particular place for a variety of reasons. Maybe it was stunningly beautiful or irresistibly peculiar. Maybe it was somewhere they’d wanted to go to since childhood, finally made it and it was everything they’d dreamed of and more. Maybe something special happened while […]
