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Blending in is not an option for a lot of male birds, like this Red-winged Blackbird. The flashier ones make the best mates because they are better at drawing the attention of enemies away from the much drabber female and chicks. Talk about taking one for the team!
Cactus needles viewed from above at the Conservatory
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Date: February 16, 2021
Location: Warfield Pond Park - Glenwood, Maryland (Howard County)
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Photographed at my home while snowing. More snow forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Snow results in large number of birds at my feeders. This bird or perhaps several Sharp-shinned Hawks are frequent visitors to my home. IMG_9052
Photographed in my back yard. I was ready for him. I expected him because I have seen him several times recently and Saturday he landed on my birdbath. He arrived a little latter Sunday morning but may have been confused about the time because we went from daylight saving time to pacific standard time. I say this as if the bird knows the time. Maybe he slept in because it was snowing most of the night and early morning. He tried for a quail, junco, and sparrow breakfast but as far as I know he failed. I enjoyed watching him for about 15 minutes while he sat from 15-30 feet from me between trying to catch a sparrow that was in a shrub next to him. He flew around the shrub and even jumped at it 4 or 5 times which was fun to watch. IMG_6342
Sitting on the window-sill and enjoying the low afternoon sun. Illuminated and in sharp focus is the "good" eye, the one I use for photography. The other one plays second fiddle. However, none of them was really involved in taking this self-portrait. It was the artificial eye of the camera in connection with a clever algorithm (automatic eye recognition) that kicked in when I pressed the shutter release (via a long cable). This is one of the situations where camera technology enables me to do things with ease that, if done manually, would have been quite difficult to achieve.
Accipiter striatus
This morning I woke up early and though I had planned on sleeping in the cool weather outside motivated me to make a run out to Smith Point to see if any hawks were moving. Smith Point is a peninsula that juts out between Galveston and Trinity Bays. The thing that makes it interesting (at least when it comes to birds) this time of year is that, much like Cape May, NJ, it acts as a funnel that concentrates birds that are migrating south. As I headed to Smith Point the weather was looking pretty dreary and I had the strong feeling that I was making a mistake going but I decided to press on and take my chances on the weather. When I arrived I was pleased that it was not raining and there were some raptors moving. Most of the birds I saw were Sharp-shinned Hawks like this one and I was delighted to see a couple come close in the early morning light.
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Still only Sharpies at my favorite crab apple grove and no waxwings.
I like Sharp Tail Grouse, but I'm ready for a bit of diversity!
After dropping off 5 steel wire gondolas in a industry track, WHHB-1 cuts a tight S curve to later go and bring a cut of cars to IRIS.
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Pretty sure this is a sharp-shinned hawk Accipiter striatus, just guessing. Another possibility might be a Merlin, though this bird's head is not quite shaped right, nor does it have any 'eyebrow' mark, as a merlin might (but not always) have.
I just don't see either of them often enough to know.
This little (crow size) raptor has been hanging around my little pond for several days, swooping rapidly from under cover likely grabbing little songbirds.
We first noticed the flickers completely disappeared from our backyard, including the mating pair, as well as an unusual disapperance and silence for long stretches of time, from other songbirds.
Perhaps the result of this bird taking the opportunity to ambush feed on the numerous little songbirds that have arrived.
...bigger than a Stellar's or Shrub jay
decidedly smaller than a crow
bare and slender legged
my observations against it being a Cooper's hawk
An unexpected sight at the west end of NS's Ashland Avenue Yard: newly-delivered (from Altoona) RP4MC road slug 647 and GP33ECO 4710 team up for switching duties.
I heard this hunter take the bird in the sky as i was leaving work...pulled out of my lot, and seen this in the neighboring businesses yard
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Photographed: 2016-03-21
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On April 29th I started my day at 2:45 am. I drove with three friends to a lek in Southern Alberta. We had to be in the blind by 5 am. It sure took a long time before there was enough light to take photos. We could hear the grouse. They were making many sounds and e could see their outlines in the dark. It was another great day. The last time I was out there was two years ago.
I was using a brand new camera so I had many photos to delete and of course far too many photos over all. Most photos were only cropped. I didn't adjust any colors. Some photos are not even cropped.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured up close, I loved the sharp focus of this woman looking down the street and was so pleased to get some sharp focus of my own for the image.
This is the same woman I captured 'Turning Around' here flic.kr/p/MHyk6A. She had such a strikingly beautiful profile but I was so pleased to, unusually for me, click the shutter again when she turned around. Enjoy!
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Kenton County, KY, 11-24-18. I don't often see these, especially in my backyard. This one stayed nearly motionless for about an hour in the same spot.
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Long Island, New York