Fr. Paul Kammen

Magnolia Warblers are awfully fast, and don't seem to stay still long, but got a few shots off as he was hopping and hunting bugs and worms in the tree. #birds #birdphotogrpahy

A Pine Warbler from Pine Island State Forest in northern Minnesota's Koochiching County. He flew to a nice perch and gave me some good looks for a minute or two. #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotogrpahy #NikonCreators

Editing some files from last fall, I liked this morning at Bow Lake along the Ice Fields Parkway. Hope to make it back down the road. #landscapes #canada #banff

A Mourning Warbler in Koochiching County in mid June. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography

A Great Egret flying along the Gulf of America at Bolivar Flats in April; Caspian Terns and Laughing Gulls in the background. (High Island, Texas).

A Kentucky Warbler from Wyalusing State Park in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He was on a nice perch for a bit that June morning. #birds #birdphotogrpahy #warblers

Break time with Emmett on a morning walk. After the rain is nice much less peoply out.

A Prothonotary Warbler on a tree in southeastern Minnesota last week near Reno, the biggest little city in Houston County. #birds #birdphotography

If I had to pick a favorite movie, this is it. Was lucky to see it in the theater in 1985 (The Heights) with my parents who took me. Good memories.

A Prothonotary Warbler from last week at Millstone Landing, a favorite spot in southeastern Minnesota along the river. Lots of these little yellow guys down there. #birds #birdphotography

A Golden Winged Warbler, one of my favorites, on a forest road up north in Koochiching County in the middle of nowhere, singing in the morning sun. #birds #birdphotography

A Yellow Throated Warbler from Wyalusing State Park near Prarie du Chien, Wisconsin; another file I found in "the cloud" I thought was lost on my hard drive. They are found in far southeastern Minnesota. #birds #birdphotography

Going through some files and the hard drive this was on crashed, but found it in the cloud so I uploaded it before it died. Went back and re-worked it a bit, a Kentucky Warbler from Wyalusing State Park. Didn't get one this year down there but glad the file was saved.

An Olive-Sided Flycatcher from the forest roads of Koochiching County in northern Minnesota. #birds #birdphotography

A Palm Warbler from Koochiching County in mid-June; got him on a couple of perches I liked. #birds #birdphotogrpahy #nature

A Chestnut Sided Warbler from Koochiching County; I liked the angle on him as it shows the chestnut side that he gets his name from. Cute little warblers nesting here for the summer. #birds #birdphotography #nature

While out photographing nature I always have another camera too as I love train shots. I liked getting 3 different locomitives (now all owned by the same company, Canadian Pacific) so raced to get ahead of the train. Taken near Winona. #trains #trainphotography

A Northern Parula from northern Minnesota (Koochiching County) on the forest roads. #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #nikoncreators

Going through some files for a contest, always liked this shot. Took it 10 years ago, and it would look better with the camera I have now as it's a bit too "noisy" (I think) but it was fun to see mama and junior out in Sequoia National Park.