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Despite their enviable ability to fly, #birds spend a lot of time #standingonthings, which is perhaps why that's the #birdoftheday theme. A Western wood-peewee on a cactus, from 2018.

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Poor little dude. Our pitbull, Kelly, doesn't GAF about fireworks, so we got lucky.

Just a Nikon D7100 and my reactions.

It was an experience, having one of these coming at me!

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #takeoffs
That time a Cooper's hawk launched itself straight at me. It flew about three feet over my head.
#birds #hawk #raptor

At Cottontail Acres: I only had to wait about 15 minutes at dawn yesterday for our resident mockingbird to land in this tree so I could frame it against the setting full moon.
#birds #mockingbird

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #fighting
Goose v. goose
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime
A Cooper's hawk snacks on a tiny bird.
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We've had the same pair hanging around for six or seven years. Hoppy, the female, is easily identified by her bent right foot. They bring their young to our house every year (we put food scraps out for them year round).

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CloseUps
I had the pleasure of hanging out with two of our resident ravens' young ones at sunset a couple of years ago. I managed to get some nice portraits.
#birds #ravens

At Cottontail Acres: that time a bunch o' mice took up residence in some of our bushes. They were big fans of bird seed.
#mouse #rodent #wildlife #wildlifephotography

We have some dull ones, too. But there's lots of reds and yellows here, to be sure.

At Cottontail Acres: we had an unusual visitor early this morning, a male red-naped sapsucker. They're generally fairly common, but I've seen them only a few times here at the house over the years. This one has some extra red feathers on his head.
#birds #sapsucker

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The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #underrated.
We have over two dozen sparrow varieties in California, and they would be my pick: song sparrow, chipping sparrow, lark sparrow, white-throated sparrow.
#birds #sparrows

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #worst. The only thing I got right here was the framing. Kinda looks like a black ink painting.
#birds #raven

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Alt #BirdOfTheDay is #Finches
This shot of a Lawrence's goldfinch was accepted into competition at the annual juried art exhibition at our local Museum of Art and History last year. Which was nice.
#birds #goldfinch

It's #Scape day and #Halloween, so let's set the wayback machine to Times Square in 2017
#humansofbluesky #streetphotography #nyc #cityscape #urbangaze

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Halloween.
Here's a spooky looking Cooper's hawk.
#birds #raptors #hawks