Red-tailed Hawk, Point Reyes National Seashore
Along with eagles and great horned owls, red-tailed hawks are one of my favorite raptors to photograph. Point Reyes is a good place to find them.
Tag: birds
Lesser Goldfinch, Marin County, California
Here is another photo from our garden. I decided to do a poster series of birds like I did last summer of Yellowstone wildlife. The Yellowstone posters are available at The Paradise Gallery in Gardiner, Montana. The bird posters are now available at Wild Birds Unlimited, Novato, California. I had never been in a Wild Birds Unlimited store before the Novato store opened this past summer. It is very nice and the people are very knowledgeable. If you’re interested in attracting and feeding wild birds and there is a Wild Birds Unlimited store near you, then you probably already know how good they are. But, if you have one nearby and haven’t checked it out, you should.
White-crowned Sparrow, Marin County, California
I did some more photographing in our garden recently. In exchange for a little seed, this white-crowned sparrow agreed to pose. I haven’t seen the jackrabbit who used to run around the garden when I was shooting there a couple of months ago. I hope he is OK.
American Crow, Point Reyes National Seashore
Crows aren’t the most beautiful or colorful birds. The same holds true for ravens. However,they are both blessed with one attribute that would seem to be more important in the wild — intelligence. Studies have shown crows and ravens to be among the most intelligent of all birds. What I like about this photo is the effect from the eye’s nictitating membrane.
Mourning Dove, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California
This mourning dove let me get quite close. The coloring of these birds, with their black eyes, teal orbital rings and tans and grays of their bodies, is subtle, but beautiful.
Acorn Woodpecker, Marin County, California
This acorn woodpecker and its mate nested in this tree cavity next to my friend Jeff’s garage in Inverness this past spring. Jeff kept an eye on the nest, but never saw any young. That’s the way it goes sometimes.
They are colorful birds. Their habit of storing acorn nuts in the holes they create in trees, fences and anything else made of wood can make them unpopular when they decide to store their nuts in the wood siding of a house.
In Memory of September 11, 2001
In memory of the tragic events that occurred nine years ago. May nothing like that ever happen again.
