Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" just applied to an unfamiliar

just applied to an unfamiliar species

Three Bohemian Waxwings descend on a berry-laden branch — one upside-down reaching for a cluster

both in the final passage of their lives

A Canadian Shield island in a northern lake — a single white pine bent by decades of prevailing wind

the orange feet visible through the transparent shallows

Red Squirrel and Pileated Woodpecker — Giclée on Paper Print Size:13.5" x 16" just applied to an unfamiliarA Red Squirrel faces off against a Pileated Woodpecker on the trunk of a dead pine the woodpecker emerging from its excavation, the squirrel on a branch just across, both alert and assessing. This is a territorial encounter in progress: the Pileated, excavating for carpenter ants, and the Red Squirrel, investigating the noise, have come face to face. The composition is spare and tense, the background dissolved to a soft blue. Glen observed and