Welcome to my "Critters and Nature Imagery" page. Videos of just about everything else that occurs in the amazing world of nature, but also might be about some special birds. When the birds aren't cooperating, I always try and salvage something out of the day like shooting butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, lizards, and much more. Basically if it moves and it's interesting, I'll point the camera at it. I have always loved the world of macro photography, and now I can do the same thing with video. The close up world of macro allows you to see things and details that are sometimes impossible to observe with your normal eye sight, even if you were fairly close. Remember, when you are out enjoying your local park or a wilderness area, or even if it's only your yard, take a minute and stop, look around, look down, because you might be passing right by an opportunity to see something interesting, and never have known that it was there. Enjoy, and good crittering.

The Sonny Bono Salton Sea NWR has 826 acres of manageable wetland units, which are managed for resident and migratory bird species such as waterfowl, shorebirds and wading birds. In addition, specified impoundments are managed as permanent wetlands to provide critical nesting and year-round habitat for the endangered Yuma Clapper Rail. Refuge wetlands provide nesting habitat for a variety of other species, including the Least Bittern, White-faced Ibis, Black-necked Stilt and American Avocet. During the winter up to 30,000 geese, Ross's, Snow, and Canada, and up to 400 Sandhill Crane call the Salton Sea area home. Observing the sight and sounds of 1,000's of geese and 100's of Sandhill Crane leaving at dawn for their day feeding areas, foraging in managed feeding fields, and then returning at dusk to their night roosting sites is hard to describe without being there to see it for yourself.

After clicking the play button, go to the resolution shown in the bottom right corner which is normally set at the default of 360p, click it and you will see other resolutions of 480p and 720p HD. Select a resolution that plays the video smoothly depending on the speed of your Internet connection, 720p HD having the best resolution, but requiring the higher speed connections.