CHRP, Fremont

"Honey, are you ready for food transfer?"

"Darling, slow down. I'm not quite ready yet!"

Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

「親愛的，可以把食物交給妳了嗎？」

「老公，飛慢點，我還沒準備好呢！」

人生要把握當下，三個月前發現了這對白尾鳶夫妻，本來以為可以拍很多很多照片，誰知道二星期後，他們竟然不知去向，如今只能由照片中慢慢回味和他們相遇的點點滴滴。

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CHRP, Fremont

Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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White-tailed Kite

Don Edwards Wild life Refuge, San Jose, California

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Milpitas, California

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White-tailed Kite - Mountain View, CA

Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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White-tailed kite couple and prey

Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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04/11/2019

Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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gopher still alive in the air with WTK at Shoreline Lake, Mountain View

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Hayward Regional Shoreline, Hayward, California

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Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge, San Jose, California

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On a rainy day, male kite was about to take off to deliver the half-eaten vole to female kite (supposed to sit on eggs). Out of sudden, she showed up to pick up the vole instead.

Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont, CA

白尾鳶之彩色世界

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So nice today to get out with no rain and some sunshine. Coyote Hills seemed like the perfect place to go. We haven't since all the big rain. On the hill were the usual suspects, WTK, Merlin, Sharpie RTH, Harrier.

A White-tailed Kite with a big vole for dinner.

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the pair of WTK in the neighborhood have begun in air food transfers.

The chicks are very adept at maneuvering in the air and are gone most of the day now, presumably out trying to hunt on their own.

CHRP, Fremont

HRS, Hayward

The sun came out and lit up the WTK as it was sitting under a dark cloud.

Shoreline, Mountain View

White-tailed Kite from Coyote Hill Regional Park, CA

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CHRP, Fremont

CHRP, Fremont

We haven't been to CH much lately. We got there just in time to watch this WTK devouring a vole. I had to wrangle through the branches to get a clear shot which was nearly impossible. I edited out some distracting branch on the right side. I got the vole just before it went down the hatch.

It has just plucked the intestines out which are hanging on a branch below, lower right.

CHRP, Fremont

CHRP, Fremont

HRS, Hayward

After I followed the WTK uphill in my car he settled down and I took many shots. After a few minutes he was flushed by a passing car. Ultimately, I did video of him finishing breakfast in the field.

CHRP Fremont,Ca.

This little guy is your reward for hiking

up the to "hawk hill " he will stand there

until your batteries run out ? I always

enjoy seeing him on the way to spot

the WTK , Merlin , or RTH .

White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)

Also known as the White-breasted Kingfisher. However, not all of them has a white breast, so white-throated is more appropriate. Its call is like the Collared Kingfisher, but less sharp and shrill.

Common resident breeder

Local subspecies: fusca

Length: 28 cm

Habitat: Wetland, river, pond, park

Distribution: Turkey east to the Philippines.

Breeding: Dec-May

Nest: Bank, termite mound

Diet: Fish, lizard, snake, insect, frog, rodent