L. Jordan Captures

L. Jordan Captures Wildlife photographer located in Lincoln, ME. All photos are available for purchase as prints or canvases!

Just a hobbyist who wants to share his photos with anybody who wants to look at them.

Life has been incredibly busy the past few weeks, and that means I haven't been able to get out and take photos like I u...
08/29/2026

Life has been incredibly busy the past few weeks, and that means I haven't been able to get out and take photos like I usually do on the weekends. Today, I took some time to go out and about and take pictures of two birds that look similar but act very differently from each other.

Mourning Doves and Feral Pigeons are part of the same family, Columbidae, with feral pigeons being derived from domesticated Rock Doves. Even though they're from the same family, mourning doves spend their time in the woods or outskirts of towns, avoiding the busier areas, and are quite skittish. Pigeons, having been domesticated in the past, have no problem with people, and spend all of their time in downtown areas or cities.

I love to see birds that are part of the same families but have such different characteristics. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Though I have still not been able to find a moose to photograph, I seem to have found every other wild animal to photogr...
07/26/2026

Though I have still not been able to find a moose to photograph, I seem to have found every other wild animal to photograph from a snowshoe hare to a beaver, to all sorts of little birds.

Hopefully sometime this year my luck will turn around, and I'll be able to get a good picture of a moose, but until then, enjoy these little photos from my recent adventures!

Recently I've started to realize that wildlife photography definitely has both its ups and its downs. I have had to remi...
07/13/2026

Recently I've started to realize that wildlife photography definitely has both its ups and its downs. I have had to remind myself that the right shot will eventually come along and that I can't be impatient, especially when my shots rely on the behavior of animals.

I have shot a few pictures recently that I would say are better than others, but not nearly as many as I have in the past. Maybe it's my own personal standards, or maybe it really is just that the universe isn't lining up right for the best shot. Either way, I'll push forward and meet my own standards in due time.

I hope everyone had a good weekend, and enjoy a couple of recent shots!

Something that has always been an aspect that makes wildlife photography fun for me is the "luck" factor. Animals behave...
06/21/2026

Something that has always been an aspect that makes wildlife photography fun for me is the "luck" factor. Animals behave in their own way; they don't listen to you if you tell them to pose so a lot of the time that means that you can get some... interesting, lackluster, or sometimes goofy looking pictures.

I haven't been able to get too many "full" sets of pictures in the last few weeks, so here is a little collection of the "pictures I post vs. the pictures I don't" I hope everyone has a great weekend!

I didn't think it would be possible to see a hummingbird so still, but thanks to a camera, the dream becomes a reality. ...
05/23/2026

I didn't think it would be possible to see a hummingbird so still, but thanks to a camera, the dream becomes a reality. This beautiful Ruby-Throated Hummingbird has made itself a regular at my feeder so far this Spring.

Hummingbirds are, what I would call, a biological marvel. Their hearts beat more than 1,200bpm (20 times per second) and they flap their wings around 200 times per second! This means they can flap their wings 10 times before their heart beats even once. Because of this, they take in extremely high amounts of calories. In fact, if a human were to keep up with a hummingbird's metabolism, they would have to eat around 180,000 calories per day!

I hope that everyone has a safe and happy weekend, and enjoy the photos of this energetic little guy!

Let's talk dimorphism; many people know what it is but don't know the word itself. Sexual dimorphism is when the male an...
05/03/2026

Let's talk dimorphism; many people know what it is but don't know the word itself. Sexual dimorphism is when the male and female of the same species look different, like male cardinals being bright red, while the females are a more grayish brown with hints of red.

Some birds though, like the Canada goose, do not have dramatic changes to tell them apart. Instead, they have the same feather and color patterns with the only notable differences being that the males (ganders) have slightly larger heads, thicker necks, and broader tail feathers; while the females have rounder heads, a slenderer neck and overall, a more "curvaceous" form due to their posture.

I have included some pictures of both males and females, see if you can spot the difference! I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Growing up, I was wholly convinced that a Mallard was just how you referred to a male duck like a buck/doe, bull/cow, or...
03/30/2026

Growing up, I was wholly convinced that a Mallard was just how you referred to a male duck like a buck/doe, bull/cow, or tom/hen. I thought it was simply “mallard and duck”

That idea probably stuck because of those “Mallard” campers with a bright green-headed drake painted on the side.

So for the longest time, I assumed mallard referred only to the males, not the species as a whole. It also explains why I used to wonder why I only ever saw “female” ducks in the summer… when in reality, the males were just in their non-breeding plumage. No matter how common they are though, nothing really beats that deep green head in the right light.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and continue that energy into this week!

Cold weather and busy weekends have unfortunately led to less photos recently, but thankfully I still have had some cute...
03/21/2026

Cold weather and busy weekends have unfortunately led to less photos recently, but thankfully I still have had some cute little friends enjoying the feeders in the yard. Won't be long and the warm weather will take over, and I can get more pictures, but until then this will have to do.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, and let's look forward to Spring together!!

I'm not the best at relationship advice, but there's one thing I know you shouldn't do... NEVER tell her that she looks ...
02/15/2026

I'm not the best at relationship advice, but there's one thing I know you shouldn't do... NEVER tell her that she looks like a cow... unless of course, she looks like this, in which case you tell her that she looks like a very PRETTY cow!

Thank you to C.R. Hatch Farms once again for letting me and my mom act like giddy little children who've never seen a cow in their lives, and for letting me take some photos while I was there.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend, and again unless they look like this, don't call your Valentine a cow 🫶😊

Cold weather makes it hard to get out and take pictures, and I noticed I haven't posted any photos in over a month, but ...
02/07/2026

Cold weather makes it hard to get out and take pictures, and I noticed I haven't posted any photos in over a month, but today I got out and watched my little friends snack at the feeders. Some finches, titmice, and fluffy chickadees flying around the yard.

I hope everyone has a great weekend, and if the weather stays cold, I'll post again in another month! 😆

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