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The boss buck wanders down a steep bank into a river bottom and stops to scrape a tree.... keeping the antlers sharp and leaving his mark.
I'd been wondering why I haven't had any birds at my feeders for the last few days. Then I saw this beautiful little guy perched in the feeder tree. I would assume that it was a male as it appeared very small - about Kestrel size. This is the first one I have noted in my yard and I hope he comes back from time to time but not take up permanent residence here.
A sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) in the yard near a feeder in Tucson, Arizona. (Thanks to Arron Watler for help with the id).
Image sharpness has a special button!
Actually, these 'buttons' are organ mixture stops. These stops give to each organ note simultaneously the notes of the major chord, in other words the major third and perfect fifth. Some say that arguably, in some cases these stops result in harmonic congestion as they are largely a result of medieval ignorance and their search for loudness in a world without electricity to drive power amplifiers. Organs were at one time talked of as 'instruments of power', as mixtures were used to achieve a balance of harmony and acoustic power resulting in loudness across an audio spectrum, something that played a significant part in medieval power politics.
Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to
Silk suit, black tie,
I don't need a reason why
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man - ZZ Top
Photographed in my yard, Yakima County, Washington. This bird was around my house most of the day. I saw a Coppers Hawk try to chase it away but it returned. I don't believe it made a kill but I hope it found something to eat. The next photo of the same bird.
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It was a personal highlight of 2025 to finally do Sharp Edge, having read so much about it and watched so many Youtube videos. Thankfully the day I chose was dry and the rock was grippy. People lose their lives here each year, mostly through attempting it in the wrong weather conditions.
This image is also perhaps a strained metaphor for this point in time, with the world balancing on a knife edge etc? :-) Let's hope things get better in 2026.. Happy New Year everybody!
Photo stitched from two camera jpegs.
Take care when picking brambles, you may come across some sharp thorns! A close up of some nasty thorns seen at the local park.
A Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus ) perched on a fence post on the edge of a prairie meadow near Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2 June, 2011.
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Sharp beak, sharp talons, sharp dressed ;-)
Western Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Morro Bay, CA
That's one of the Morro Bay power plant stacks in the background
My wildlife album: www.flickr.com/photos/gotfish_mb/sets/72157604955724732