10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2012
Birds are beautiful. Birds are fascinating. Birds are always too close, prancing around resplendent in their finery and vexing the close-focus on your suddenly useless binoculars. An intimate moment at dusk between a Red-tailed Hawk and an expired gopher. One of these sentiments is a lie. Wild Turkey.
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Continuing the celebration of commonplace birds we now hail the ubiquitous Great Blue Heron. They know the rhythms of gophers. And they cough up pellets just like hawks and owls! There are too many images to share so I’ll keep the captions brief and let the pictures do the squawking, er, I mean talking. Goodnight Heron.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2012
Next time you find the light fading and resign yourself to a night sky filled with owls and bats, remember that some diurnal denizens like to stay out late too. Gophers that live near streetlights beware. I’ve often seen Northern Harriers overlap with Short-eared Owls as the night shift swings into action.
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