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Dawn Wilson 🦅📸🐻‍❄️🏔️🐻
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An award-winning nature photographer and outdoor writer based in Estes Park, Colorado. Author of 100 Things to Do in Estes Park, I also offer tours in Rocky Mountain National Park and lead photo workshops from Churchill and Alaska to Peru and Belize.
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Happy Earth Day!! A shout out for all of the critters that roam this beautiful blue marble. Let’s hope we don’t completely destroy it. 🤞🌎

#EarthDay #EarthDay2025 #wildplanet #wildlifephotography #planetearth #NationalParkWeek #DarkSkyWeek
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Happy National Wildlife Week! A few of my favorite animals in North America. What are your favorites?

#wildlife #animals #wildlifephotography #animalplanet #polarbear #wildplanet #nationalwildlifeweek
April 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A saddle-back tamarin in the Amazon rainforest of Peru.

#monkey #shotonnikon #wildlifephotography #wildplanet
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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An article reflecting on 30 years of stunning images at Nature’s Best Photography. Flattered to be a part of the 30 years with this bald eagle image included in the 2014 collection.

www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

#wildlife #women_wildlife_photography #birdphotography #featured_wildlife #baldeagle
March 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Venturing out on the last leg of a month of travel - this time to Louisiana for a few days of rest - before heading back to Colorado for private tours. Belize was fantastic - lots of birds, iguanas, crocodiles, monkeys, a gray fox, toads, and even a few coatis! Here is a photo of a great curassow.
March 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I love seeing the sandhill cranes return to Colorado in the spring, when snow-capped peaks, colorful sunsets and sunrises, and vast expanses of valley frame the birds so nicely. 😉🏔️

#featured_wildlife #birdphotography #coloradolife #coloradowildlife #wildlifephotography #photooftheday #birdlife
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The Florida Birding & Photo Fest is at the end of April. I am speaking this year and leading a couple of field workshops. Check out all of the details, including speaker information, field trips and networking opportunities in the link. Hope to see you there!!

www.floridasbirdingandphotofest.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Cowabunga!!!! We watched a troupe of about two dozen squirrel monkeys jumping from tree to tree. It was like watching a live game of Donkey Kong! 😆🐵 Wheeeeeee!!!

#peru #amazonrainforest #wildlifephotography #nikoncreators #wildplanet #wildlife #featured_wildlife
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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More photos from the Amazon River Basin. These are a three-toed sloth and a hoatzin, an absolutely stunning bird that usually perches at the tops of trees. shot with Taken on Nikon z8 and Nikon 180-600mm.

#wildlifephotography #birdphotography #animalplanet #photooftheday #nikoncreators #nikonz8
March 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Something a little lighter and hopefully more smile producing. Here are my first edits from the photo tour in the Amazon River Basin of Peru. This continues to be an amazing trip with lots of new bird species for our clients. And so far we have seen an amazing eight species of monkeys!!
March 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Signs of spring are here! Mountain bluebirds have returned. The elk have started to drop their antlers. The Sandhill cranes are visiting Colorado. What a wonderful time of year!

#spring #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birdphotography #springiscoming #lovelife #liveyourbestlife
March 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Numbers are in for the most visited national parks in 2024. Rocky Mountain NP has come in at the fifth position, with 4.15 million visitors, after Great Smoky Mountains, Zion, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone. The visitation number for Rocky is a slight increase over 2023, which was 4.12 million.
March 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Time to start a month of travel. First up is the Amazon rainforest of Peru! It will be another great adventure with hopefully pink dolphins, parrots, dart frogs and maybe the elusive jaguar??? 🤞Hopefully a baby sloth or two again as well 😁🦥

#amazon #wildlifephotography #birdphotography
March 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Interested in a trip of a lifetime? I have one spot available on my July brown bear trip. Link in the comments for more info or DM me.

#bears #phototour #nikoncreators #wildlifephotography #Alaska #alaskawildlife #featured_wildlife
March 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Nothing beats a beautiful sunrise to lift your spirits for the day. Here’s to happy lifting 🙂🌅

Shot Nikon z7ii and Nikon 24-70mm

#sunrisephotography #sunrise #liftyourspirits #naturephotography #Colorado #coloradolife #coloradoliving #nikoncreators
March 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Happy World Wildlife Day!! 🐻🐻‍❄️🦅🐇🐿️🦊

#wildlife #WorldWildlifeDay #celebrate #wildlifephotography #sheexplores #coloradowildlife #coloradooutdoors #nikoncreators #shotonnikon #birdphotography #wildplanet #featured_wildlife
March 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Happy Birthday, Yellowstone National Park! 🎉 You are the park that started it all. I hope they continue to be there “for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”

#yellowstonenationalpark #yellowstone #nationalparks #wildlifephotography #landscapephotography
March 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I am off to co-lead a photo and bird tour in Belize in a few weeks with Wildside Nature Tours. That got me thinking about last year's trip & what amazing wildlife we saw. Here are a few new edits of the birds we saw at our second lodge on last year's trip. What would be your top bird find in Belize?
March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I found a pelican floating around a small pond on a drive to Louisiana recently. The keel, or horn, is starting to grow on the beak of this adult. The purpose of the hard bump is not known but is suspected to be part of attracting mates. It falls off after breeding season.

#birdphotography
February 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Grand Teton National Park’s 96th birthday was yesterday. Interestingly, I also came across the first photo I ever took of Grizzly 399 last night. So, I am sharing that photo with you of this amazing bear in 2012. Wow, 13 years of photographing her. Happy birthday, GTNP!! 🎉🏔️🐻
February 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Happy International Polar Bear Day!
Keep our Arctic animals in your thoughts. They are going to need extra voices in their corner the next few years.

#InternationalPolarBearDay #polarbear #endangeredspecies #endangeredanimals #wildlifephotography #sheexplores #bears #wildplanet #featured_wildlife
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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When you dig through your photo library looking for something specific and come across a gem like this…ahh, reminds me to dig more often 😆

#birdphotography #sheexplores #coloradowildlife #coloradooutdoors #birdlife #nikoncreators #shotonnikon #birds #grosbeak
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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During a recent conference where I spoke about wildlife photography, I listened to many talented female nature photographers talk about seeing the landscape in different ways. I tried it a few times since then. Here are a few of the results.

#rmnp #rockymountain #estespark #nature #naturephoto
Morning view of Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park. I loved the layers and colors in this image. True chaos. The aspens and willows take on a whole new look in winter when the soft white of the aspen trees and warm orange tones of the willows reveal something we don’t see when the leaves hide their branches at other times of the year. The patterns in this closeup of those branches keep my eye wandering through the chaotic scene. I have stopped to photograph this scene of aspen trees, snow-capped Chapin and Chiquita mountains and the forest below tree line several times in spring and fall when there are leaves in the trees. In winter, however, the lines are more noticeable and the added parallel of the diagonal clouds nicely frames everything.
February 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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An unexpected appearance by an ermine while out photographing sunset. Only brought the wide-angle lens so I missed out on a great photo opportunity but I went for my favorite kind of wildlife shot - animal in the environment. See if you can find the little critter darting around the scene.
February 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A stunning sunrise a few days ago when Hallett Peak gave a brief peek through the clouds.

#rmnp #Colorado #coloradolife #outdoorphotography #naturephotography #nanpapix #estesparkcolorado #estespark #rockymountainnationalpark
February 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM