It’s spring and you know what that means...Black Bear sightings are on the rise.

Join Dick to capture images of black bears and spring cubs in their natural environment as they forage along the fields, fattening up for the upcoming winter season, and the cubs playing!

Black Bear Tour - North Carolina

Available Dates: May 24 - June 7, 2022

Tour Price: Full day | 8 hour tour

$550 per person | Minimum 2 people

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot

www.dvwildlife.com/tours

352-363-8292

We enjoyed all that have come along with us on a tour!

If you can squeeze in a tour, May 13th - 21st we will be back home for a 9 days of bald eagles and raptor tours.

Then we are leaving for North Carolina for Black Bear ours from May 24th - June 7th. The bears are a wonderful way to spend a day! I know my way around to make sure we get to see black bears roaming the fields with their cubs. We hope you can come along! www.dvwildlife.com/tours

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot

352-363-8292

www.dvwildlife.com

Photo by John Ficken

We've had an amazing time photographing Bald Eagles this spring with all our photography friends...old and new! 3 more weeks of Bald Eagle tours and then we are leaving for Vero Beach to photograph nesting Ospreys on beautiful Blue Cypress Lake. The lake has 250 nesting ospreys, a few eagles, owls, peregrine falcons and about every shorebird. A birding paradise with amazing sunrises and non-stop osprey action with babies on every nest. Tours are aboard our 24 ft pontoon boat. We hope you can join us for a day of fun!

Tour dates are and are booking quickly so schedule your tour soon. Go to http://www.dvwildlife.com/tours to book a tour online or call 352-363-8292.

Osprey Tour on Blue Cypress Lake - Vero Beach, Florida

Available Dates: April 15 - May 11, 2022

Pricing: Morning - 3 hours $250 per person

Beginning on May 24th, we will be photographing black bears and cubs in their natural habit in eastern North Carolina, home to the largest concentration of black bears found in the southeastern US. Dick's extensive knowledge of the area helps to locate and photograph bears and cubs. Go to http://www.dvwildlife.com/tours to book a tour online

or call 352-363-8292.

Black Bear Tour - North Carolina

Available Dates: May 24 - June 7, 2022​

Pricing: Full-day - 8 hours | $550 per person | Minimum 2 people

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot

www.dvwildlife.com

Dick and I are grateful for the many friends we've met over the years through travel and photography tours. We all share the same passion of birds-in-flight photography! Right now is an exciting time of the season for photographing raptors! The bald eagles are locking up and tumbling almost all the way to the lake. The eaglets are born and the parents are on a feeding frenzy. The ospreys have returned to the lake and the aerial battles are now happening between the bald eagles and ospreys! Who will win the battle. Usually, it's the eagle! The ospreys are making their nests and will be laying their eggs soon. We have a few eagle tour openings left in March. Look for new tours in the western US for August and September. More information to come!

Let us know if you have a tour idea you would be interested in!

UPCOMING TOURS

Osprey Tour on Blue Cypress Lake - Vero Beach, Florida

Available Dates: April 15th - May 11th, 2022

Black Bear Tour - North Carolina

Available Dates: May 24 - June 7, 2022

Swallow-tailed Kite Tour - Deland, Florida

Available Dates: July 8 - 21, 2022

Camera Instruction - Florida

Available Dates: Year-round on any tour

Special Dates for Instruction with Eagle Tour: May 17 & May 19, 2022

Dick is most passionate about photographing birds-in-flight, wildlife and getting the exposure right. He can help you with camera instruction, setting up your camera or learning about your mirrorless camera. Dick will help you create a customized plan to improve your photography skills in the use of light, tracking birds, manual camera settings, preparation and framing the shot. Join Dick for a day full of learning and fun!

More details can be found on our website, www.dvwildlife.com/tours.

Best regards,

Dick Vautrinot

352-363-8292

www.dvwildlife.com

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Swallow-tailed Kite Tour - Deland, Florida

Available Dates: July 8 - 21, 2021

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We hope you can join us to photograph over 5000 Swallow-tailed kites in a couple hundred-yard area on a lake in Deland, Florida. Tours are aboard our 2019 24 ft. 200 hp pontoon boat. It's Audubon's most beautiful bird of prey (of course, Dick would say after the Bald Eagle!), with its deeply forked tail and bold black-and-white plumage, it is unmistakable in the summer skies. Hanging motionless in the air, swooping and gliding, rolling upside down and then zooming high in the air with scarcely a motion of its wings, the Swallow-tailed Kite is a joy to watch.

Pricing:

Morning Tour - 3+ hrs

$150 per person

Sign-up for the tour on our website at www.dvwildlife.com/tours.

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot

352-363-8292

www.dvwildlife.com

Join us in North Carolina for Black Bear tours from May 24th until the 30th and still have some available spots. I didn't really advertise that I was going as I wanted to keep the number of people to 3 per trip (morning and afternoon tours) and still have solo seats available on the 28th, 29th and 30th. If interested, PM me or www.dvwildlife.com/tours.

The bears are a wonderful way to spend a day and being my 4th year here, I know my way around to make sure we get to see the bears and hopefully roaming with their cubs.

In July, join us to photograph over 5000 Swallow-tailed kites in a couple hundred-yard area on a lake in Deland, Florida. We are waiting for the kites annual migration to appear in large numbers to select the tour dates in July. Let us know if you are interested and we will place you on our tour list.

It's Audubon's most beautiful bird of prey, with its deeply forked tail and bold black-and-white plumage, it is unmistakable in the summer skies. (Of course, Dick would say after the Bald Eagle!) Hanging motionless in the air, swooping and gliding, rolling upside down and then zooming high in the air with scarcely a motion of its wings, the Swallow-tailed Kite is a joy to watch. At one time it was common in summer over much of the southeast, but today it is found mostly in Florida.

Our Bald Eagle tours are year-round! Bald Eagle takes flight on a recent outing (been out shooting so much lose track of days) with FB friends. I haven't shot many eagles powering out the trees lately but on this day I shot several as they just seemed to be heading to the lake on a regular basis for a snack. Eagles are still here and the osprey babies are starting to show their heads so have about a month left of great raptor photography then the heat of summer turns most days of shooting into morning affairs.

Come join us for a raptor tour... www.dvwildlife.com/tours

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot

www.dvwildlife

352-363-8292

Thank you for taking a Bald Eagle photography tours with us! We want to give you first priority on our Blue Cypress Lake tour photographing nesting Ospreys, many at eye level, on one of the most scenic lakes in Florida. Blue Cypress Lake has 250 nesting ospreys, a few eagles, owls, peregrine falcons and about every shorebird. A birding paradise with amazing sunrises and non-stop osprey action with babies on every nest. Tours are aboard our new pontoon boat. We hope you can join us for a day of fun! Tour dates are from April 8 - 30th and are booking quickly so book your tour soon. Go to http://www.dvwildlife.com/tours to book a tour online or call 352-363-8292.

Osprey Tour on Blue Cypress Lake - Vero Beach, Florida Available Dates: April 8-30, 2021 Pricing: Half day - 3 hrs Full day - 3 hrs am & 3 hrs pm $250 per person $375 per person All the best, Dick Vautrinot www.dvwildlife.com

Bald Eagle Photography Tours - We will be back to the Gainesville area in May to continue bald eagles tours! The action never stops....

Some of our favorite photos from the last few weeks

Dick's Photography Awards in February

Clients on Eagle Tours

John Redrup & Michael Tapes

Karen Winchester & Joyce Adamec

Ralph & Lulu Hernandez, Richard Story, Salvatore Mattei, Larry Treadwell & Tom Brunstetter

Jeff Smith, Neil Branch & Charles

Jack Rogers

Valerie Clayton & Carmel Dodson

Chippers!

Lea Gallardo & Rosyln Hume

Laser Engraving

We custom laser engrave glass, stone, leather, wood, acrylic, coated metal and more. Send us your favorite photo to engrave on stone or glass!

All the best,

Dick Vautrinot DV Wildlife Photography www.dvwildlife.com 352-363-8292

These are some of our favorite photos from the last few weeks.

Photos of some our clients who joined us on bald eagle tours.

Paschal and Debbie Karl & Dick

Jeff Smith & Dick

Carl Jacobs & Dick

Tyler Brooks & Dick

Lulu & Ralph Hernandez & Ed Spenser

Dorothy Cunningham, Bob LeClair, Doris & Bob Carolli

Awards from Facebook Photography group The Universe of Colour Photography!

We hope to see you on an eagle or monkey tour soon!

Dick Vautrinot

DV Wildlife Photography

www.dvwildlife.com

352-363-8292

Our clients joined us on the Silver Springs river to photograph the Rhesus monkeys and lakes in the Gainesville area to see bald eagles, herons and lots of wildlife.

Paul Card, Jack Zievis and Mike Ewanus

The Smith Family Neil Branch & Jeff Smith Jeff Smith & Logan Pierson

Donna Schumann & Doris Paul Card & Charlie

EXCITING NEWS......The bald eaglets have been born! Eaglets are fed 1-8 times a day so the parents are doing overtime hunting for fish to feed them. See facts about nesting bald eaglets at: https://journeynorth.org/tm/eagle/annual/facts_nestlings.html. We hope you can join us this year on a guided wildlife boat tour!

Dick Vautrinot

DV Wildlife Photography

www.dvwildlife.com

352-363-8292

On our travels back to Florida, we stopped at the Conowingo Dam in Maryland where an upward of 150 bald eagles gather in the fall and winter to fight over fish that have been temporarily stunned after tumbling through the turbines. All the eagles have to do is pick them up out of the water. Dick called it a bald eagle shooting gallery!

Our journey brought us back to Florida where the birds are abundant and the weather is warmer! We purchased a new ultra stable tritoon photography boat for the bald eagle and rhesus monkey tours located on several lakes and rivers near Gainesville. The tours have an abundance of bald eagles, ospreys, herons, kingfishers, egrets and lots of wildlife. The tours are offered now through the end of April 2020.

Many photographers have joined us during the holidays for bald eagle and monkey tours. Check out the photos of photographers and wildlife from the tours...

Dick had a great day with Bobby (Bobby Wummer Photography) on a lake in Orlando photographing bald eagles and snail kites! Bobby is a hoot! Check out the video....

Dick and Dave went red fishing along with photography on the Withlacoochee River with our friend Dave. It was a beautiful day!

We hope you will join us for an eagle or monkey photography boat tour or workshop! Visit our website for all the details at https://www.dvwildlife.com/tours-workshops.

Dick Vautrinot

DV Wildlife Photography

www.dvwildlife.com

352-363-8292

The journey has taken me to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, British Columbia, Washington State, California, Nevada, Arizona, Florida and North Carolina. During that time, I photographed grizzly bears, black bears, moose, elk, buffalo, antelope, eagles, golden eagles, hawks, owls, harriers, snow geese, tundra swans, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, bobcats, otters, beavers, deer, coyotes, ducks, hummingbirds, many species of birds and majestic mountains!

Spent time with old friends on the

road and met new friends along the way! Also had great times on the pontoon boat in Florida taking photographers on tours to see bald eagles and ospreys (with nesting babies) and providing one-on-one instruction on "Birds in Flight" photography.

Dick presented on the topic of "Birds in Flight" photography to the Greenville North Carolina Nature Club. Go Greenville! While in NC I took photos of black bears and bear cubs.

I am currently in Maine to photograph Moose, Black Bear, Loons with babies, Puffins and small mouth bass fishing! Soon we will be adding wildlife photography and world class bass fishing tours in Maine to our website at www.dvwildlife.com.

We hope you can join us on the road!

Dick Vautrinot DV Wildlife Photography www.dvwildlife.com 352-363-8292