A full-time winter resident in Glacier is the American Dipper, a bird that actually flies on top of and under the water. Spent an entire afternoon photographing them the other day. Finally got some nice light.

By the light of a half moon, a starry night at Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park. When I was taking this photo, a great horned owl cruised across the creek and landed in the tree next to me with a thump. I could see very little, actually. Couldn't see through the camera viewfinder at all, in fact. But with a 30 second exposure, Glacier slowly came into existence.

Last weekend dished up postcard images like this buck, above. This weekend I helped with the annual Christmas Bird Count in Glacier and it pretty much rained all day long. Slogging through wet snow for 12 miles is no fun. I saw a small flock of pine grosbeaks, which made the day. The weatherman said it was supposed to snow (4-7 inches) but in never materialized. Still, I made OK time skiing for an old man. Did the 12 miles in just under 8 hours, not bad considering I broke trail for about 10 of those miles.

As a side note, the 100 days project definitely went viral. So far this month it's had more than 5 million page views.

We're having a good old fashioned blizzard here, with high winds and temps in the single digits. The whitetails, however, are still in the rut, so the bucks are chasing around the does, heavy snows or not. Here, a nice buck peers out of a cedar forest.

Many thanks to Alan taylor of the Boston Globe, who showcased the 100 day project in his "Big Picture" blog last week. The link is here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/12/100_days_in_glacier_national_p.html

Folks seem to have liked the project.

Here is a sunset in a Glacier Park prairie last week. The weather is expected to plummet tonight into the 20 below to 30 below range by Monday and Tuesday. Still, the cold makes for some great photos, if the sun shines...