Birding
Juvenile white-tailed kite scratching ear
Juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk scratching ear
Juvenile red shouldered hawk
Allen’s hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
UCSC Arboretum
California Quail
Northern mockingbird with pollen face
Anna’s hummingbird
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Male great horned owl
Great horned owl fledgling
Great horned owl
Duck chicks lining up for bed time
Red-breasted sapsucker
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Female great horned owl
Great blue heron with prey
The heron just grabbed the unlucky rodent — I think a pocket gopher — from his hole. The gopher is literally peeing himself with the heron’s lower bill stabbed through his back. The heron is in the process of shaking off all the plants before taking his prize off to be swallowed whole.
Nikon d850 on M program at 1/1000th, f/7.1, and auto-ISO at 140 with the Nikon 500mm f/5.6e PF, handheld. The photo is cropped down from 45MP to 26MP for an effective focal length of 920mm. This is a JPG off the camera with a little cleanup in Lightroom.
Rufous Hummingbird landing
Rufous Hummingbird spreading wings
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Great horned owl fledgling
Great horned owl fledgling flapping near nest
Rufous Hummingbird in flight landing
Rufous Hummingbird preening
Rufous Hummingbird close up with insect
Rufous Hummingbird with insect
Tree swallow in flight
Killdeer in grasses
Killdeer
Killdeer paddling in vernal pond
Red-tailed hawk (dark morph) on post
Red-tailed Hawk (dark morph)
Juvenile White-tailed kite eating prey
Merlin
Merlin eating dragonfly
Say’s Phoebe in flight chasing butterfly
Say’s Phoebe in flight
Say’s Phoebe in flight
Three white-tailed kites in flight
Two white-tailed kites in flight
Northern Harrier trying to scare Sharp-Shinned hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk Puffing up for Northern Harrier
Northern Harrier and Wrong-way Photographer
Northern Harrier
Northern Harrier
Northern Harrier
American kestrel
Acorn Woodpeckers Fighting in Flight
Acorn Woodpeckers Fighting in Flight
Two red-tailed hawks (dark morph)
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Juvenile White-tailed Kite
Juvenile White-tailed Kite
Crow blinking
Caught mid-blink, showing the right-to-left eyelid common among birds.
Gold-crowned Sparrow taking off
American Kestrel
Next to a rain gutter for plant experiments
American Kestreal
On a rain gutter to simulate drought for plants
California Thrasher
red-tailed hawk landing on flag pole
Red-tailed hawk landing on flag pole
red-tailed hawk on flag pole
Red-tailed hawk on lamp post
Red-tailed hawk portrait
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Immature White-crowned Sparrow on Post
Immature White-crowned Sparrow next to Post
Sharp-shinned Hawk at night
Great Blue Heron flying
Black Phoebe
Barn Owl
House Finch
Black Phoebe
Sharp-shinned Hawk
House Finch (female)
House Finch
White-tailed Kite
Black Phoebe
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White-crowned Sparrow
Anna’s Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
White-tailed Kite removing feathers
Black Phoebe
Western Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
House finch (female)
White-tailed Kite
White-tailed kite stretching leg
White-tailed kite
White-tailed Kite with prey
American Kestrel
American Kestrel
White-tailed Kite
American Kesrel
Hummingbird in flight
Sharp-shinned hawk at night
white-crowned sparrow
Red-tailed hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Red-tailed hawk
American Kestrel taking off
Sharp-shinned hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
American Kestrel and Snake
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White pelicans feeding at night
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Night Heron hunting at night in shallow lagoon
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Juvenile white-tailed kite flying past another
White-tailed kites talon grappling
Mallard scratching head
White-tailed kites talon grappling
Hawk on electrical pole
Red northern flicker
Red Northern Flicker
Brown pelican with his fish
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White-tailed kite landing
White-tailed Kite
Lining up to transfer prey from adult White-tailed Kite to juvenile
White tailed kite with prey landing
Red-shouldered hawk on flagpole
Red-shouldered hawk on flagpole at Santa Cruz community gardens
White-tailed kite with prey looks at hummingbird
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Two kites dancing in the air
Two kites dancing in the air
White-tailed kite eating prey in tree
White-tailed kite with prey in tree
White-tailed kite with prey in tree
White-tailed kite with prey in tree
White-tailed kite buzzing red-tailed hawk
White-tailed kite chasing red-tailed hawk
White tailed kite with head of prey
Juvenile white-tailed kite tries to take prey from adult
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White-tailed kite showing battle wounds
This white-tailed kite is missing his right eye and has significant wounds on his right wing and right side of head. Even with those, he still is out there hunting and flying with the other kites in the area.
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White-tailed kite with prey
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Gull coming in for landing
Lesser Egret with fish in tide pool
Lesser Egret in sea foam
Great Egret with fish
American Kestrel perching
American Kestrel in flight
American Kestrel in flight
American Kestrel after take off
Egret in tide pool
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
Red-tailed hawk eating rodent
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
Red-tailed hawk tearing apart rodent
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
American Kestrel
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
Barn Owl
Taken after dark with a Godox v860ii and Visual Echos Better Beamer, hand held with Nikon d850 and Tamron 150-600 g2.
Northern Harrier in flight
Northern Harrier hunting
Northern Harrier
Male Northern Harrier in a field near Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA.
Northern harrier in flight on foggy morning
Northern Harrier on post
Red-tailed hawk taking off from tree
Red-shouldered hawk in tree
Sharp-shinned hawk on branch
Taken after sunset with flash: Nikon d850, Tamron 150-600 G2, Godox 860iin, Better Beamer.
Red-tailed hawk eating rodent
Red-tailed hawk eating rodent
Red-tailed hawk catching prey
Red-tailed hawk catching prey
Red-shouldered Hawk on Flagpole
Red-shouldered Hawk on owl box
Red-shouldered Hawk on chain-linked fence
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Red-shouldered hawk on owl box
Red-shouldered hawk on owl box at Santa Cruz community gardens
Red-shouldered hawk on chain link fence
Red-shouldered hawk on chain link fence at Santa Cruz community gardens
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Doves on a fence at sunset
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