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Brookieland Gallery Fresh wilderness and wildlife images from all over Creation.

28/10/2026

Where wildlife photography begins.

There are moments in the wild when everything else disappears.For a few seconds, there was no camera, no forest, no soun...
20/10/2026

There are moments in the wild when everything else disappears.
For a few seconds, there was no camera, no forest, no sound - just a powerful creature watching me as intently as I was watching her. Her eyes held a mixture of annoyance, intelligence, and confidence. I could feel the intensity of knowing that I was standing in her world, on her terms.
With a mother bear with cubs, there is no room for carelessness. Respect replaces curiosity. Stillness replaces movement. And suddenly, you realize just how small and helpless you are in the presence of something so big and wild.

“Luca”, a Silver Lab defies gravity at Ultimate Air Dogs Roanoke GO Outside Festival The Roanoke Times WDBJ7 WSLS 10 / ...
18/10/2026

“Luca”, a Silver Lab defies gravity at Ultimate Air Dogs Roanoke GO Outside Festival
The Roanoke Times WDBJ7 WSLS 10 / WSLS.com Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine Roanoke Outside

Cedar Waxwing* The “Wax” Name: Their unique name comes from the brilliant, droplet-like red tips on their secondary wing...
18/10/2026

Cedar Waxwing
* The “Wax” Name: Their unique name comes from the brilliant, droplet-like red tips on their secondary wing feathers. These tips look exactly like drops of colored sealing wax, though they are actually formed from organic carotenoid pigments derived directly from the fruit they eat.

* Polite Sharing Dynamics: They are intensely social birds. When a flock gathers along a branch that has fruit clustered only at the very tip, they will frequently line up and pass berries beak-to-beak down the entire line so that every bird in the group gets a turn to eat.

* The Honeysuckle Shift: A Cedar Waxwing’s tail typically sports a bright yellow tip. However, in parts of the northeastern United States, some birds began sporting bright orange tail bands. Biologists discovered this was caused by the birds eating the berries of an introduced, non-native honeysuckle plant while growing new feathers.

Fascinating to watch the complex culture of Ravens. So pleased to get these intimate camera trap shots.
17/10/2026

Fascinating to watch the complex culture of Ravens. So pleased to get these intimate camera trap shots.

Ingenious design in a bear claw. Bone provides the strength and rigidity, hardened keratin allows for sharpening as well...
15/10/2026

Ingenious design in a bear claw. Bone provides the strength and rigidity, hardened keratin allows for sharpening as well as breaking without damaging the bone. The keratin is the same fibrous structural protein found in human fingernails, horse hooves, and bird beaks.

Just a Happy Girl who likes to munch on skunk cabbage.
14/10/2026

Just a Happy Girl who likes to munch on skunk cabbage.

I just read that the American Kestrel has a false face on the back of its head, creating the illusion to a predator that...
10/10/2026

I just read that the American Kestrel has a false face on the back of its head, creating the illusion to a predator that it is being watched, which may deter or delay an attack. The scientific term for this is Deflective Coloration.
So when I had the opportunity to meet Captain Jack, an ambassador of Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke, I had to verify this for myself. It not only has false eyes, but a beak. I have many photos of the back of birds heads, but this is the closest I’ll ever be to a Kestrel. What a beauty!

10/10/2026

The sky was angry that day my friends.
Tropical storm front hits the Blue Ridge Mountains over Bent Mountain, Virginia

10/10/2026

Mountains to Sea. This is yesterday’s parhelion from Cave Spring, VA. I’ve seen sun dogs and halos, but never the circumzenithal arc 🙂 After getting it with the iPhone I ran home for the good camera and back to the top of the hill to get all the parts in view.

A parhelion indicates rain, snow, or a weather front is approaching. Isn’t creation amazingly tuned? See comments for the scientific terms.

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