Cherie Pitillo

Two ten month old puma cubs, a male and female, were finally reunited after a five day search by the mom and…

When I began photography in the olden times of slide film (can you say Kodachrome?), I concentrated on mammals, those great creatures…

Learning about waterfowl bills with tongue spikes, teeth-like ridges, and taste buds were probably a shocker in last month’s column.* I have…

Doesn’t this title sound like cooking utensils found in a kitchen? Instead I will discuss tools for food gathering by duck-like bills…

Enjoy this short photo essay of birds with “blue” plumage. While three are winging the blues, at the end is a bird…

BIRDIE BABIES PHOTO ESSAY Enjoy this short photo essay of baby birds with a glimpse of how they may metamorphose into an…

Tricolored Heron, Egret tricolor, Garza Tricolor (Spanish) Wading birds use different feeding strategies to capture their prey. But I think the more-than-three-colors…

Thirty-four chicken-sized birds emerge from cattails to engage in a dodge-ball dance in an open, flat wetland of southern Florida. Usually the…

BURROWING OWL, Athene cunicularia, “Tecolote Llanero” (Spanish) Time for some light heartedness and whimsy! I chose the expressive Burrowing Owl, a tiny…

Last month The Yucatan Times published my image* of a deteriorating iris of a Pileated Woodpecker. My online research of other woodpecker…