I've always loved wildlife you know even when I was a kid.
Meet mark Koster, a retired television news director from Iowa.
I just started noticing all the wildlife right here in my front yard. I was just totally shocked
Right in the middle of the city. He lives in Arizona now where he
enjoys photographing wildlife near his home in Scottsdale. It started with the bald eagles.
In 2016, I grabbed my garbage can I was walking the garbage out and I looked over to the east
on this power pole lo and behold two bald eagles sitting back to back and that's how my
wildlife urban photography addiction started.
Mark's daily routine almost always starts at
Chaparral Park. Directly across the street from my house.
And then I got several other spots but you know I don't hit them every day but
I go out every day for a couple hours. And we're almost there.
You gotta look up guys.
I think dad's eating most of the fish the kid in the back is watching.
Here he comes there he goes.
Yeah, yeah there's a ton of wildlife man urban wildlife you love urban jungle I'm Mark I'm
Chris nice meeting you man yeah keep your eyes the sky man that's what I always tell everybody
yeah yeah I do I look we got an eagle look at this man we got an eagle.
She got another one she got another one she's flying by this way come on by come on bye mama.
And it was the health club we were working out at north Scottsdale I started noticing this family
Harris hawks I became hooked on them. I share a lot on social media i hashtag a lot of the tv
stations so they share a lot of them I'm looking for shots that have character I like creating my
own captions one where he's all ruffled up i said all shook up like the Elvis song you want to buy
a watch this was on the canal just right down the street this next one is a male desert spiny
lizard this is the way this animal looks this is not colorized okay here's a shot of Bandit
pulling a nice sized catfish out of Chaparral Lake shows nice focus on his eyes he got water spray
I'm a happy boy this uh next one's a female Harris hawk and I nicknamed this bird Big Mama this last
one is uh Bandit he's looking right down at me with this great look like what are you looking at.
I've been following around for five six seven years
without a doubt that female Harris hawk and them two eagles probably recognize my bald noggin.
Getting his morning calisthenics in. This has been some of the funnest years of my life I
ain't lying I'm 67 years old man I'm doing stuff that I never thought I would have done when I was
young and when I was working in the television business I thought all I was going to do was
push buttons and yell at people but now I'm out enjoying nature and wildlife.
you