1.   Birding, butterflying with binoculars and wildlife photography are all bloodless forms of the hunt.

2.   After our own breakfast, Michael assigns us to another sharp-eyed resident naturalist, Glen Threlfo, who has made an international reputation in wildlife photography.

3.   In wildlife photography, being close usually means lugging powerful telephoto lenses and tripods into the backcountry and putting up with rotten weather, failing light and elusive subjects.

4.   Last fall McKibben wrote a piece on whether wildlife photography is a useful art form anymore.

5.   Since the rewards of wildlife photography are so great, can we do something to repay the animals that make them possible?