Great Lakes Piping Plover- Father plover broods a chick as the sun rises over Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore as featured in National Audobon Magazine in its Summer 2025 issue.
Featured in Smithsonian Magazine as a top nature Photographer. © Steve Jessmore, 2023
Territorial Dispute- An immature Great Blue Heron tries to fend off the agressive Red winged blackbird from a small, environmental area on the Torch River in northern Michigan. © Steve Jessmore
Featured cover on Summer Audubon Awards issue- my 2022 National Audubon contest Fisher Prize winner: Most creative approach to photographing birds- "Feeding Frenzy" Northern Shovelers © Steve Jessmore, 2021
Sandhill Crane look to land in corn fields along the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska during the spring migration. © Steve Jessmore
A male Eastern Kingbird tries to get amorous with a female in midair as they make their way across the Torch River. © Steve Jessmore
A Red winged blackbird signals his stake on this section of the marsh. They are the first birds back from migration in early March. © Steve Jessmore
Bee and Lotus, Reeds Lake. © Steve Jessmore
2021 National Audubon contest professional division first place "Northern Cardinal" © Steve Jessmore
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A male American Goldfinch notices this photographer in his camo while feeding. © Steve Jessmore
A Common Loon comes back to mate after chasing off a rogue loon before sunrise from the Torch River. © Steve Jessmore
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