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White-tailed Kite with prey (a good sized gopher)

10/26/2016

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This seemed mildly ghoulish, in time for Halloween...
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This is a good meal spot on highway one, Bodega - I've also seen a red-shouldered hawk hunting here.
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White-tailed Kite, highway One, Bodega
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Another red-eyed bird, the black-crowned night heron, Hole in the Head, Bodega
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Yellow-rumped warbler, Hole in the Head, Bodega
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Least sandpipers snooze and groom in a large flock, Shollenberger Park, Petaluma
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Greater yellowlegs (I think) at Shollenberger
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Greater Yellowlegs, Shollenberger Park, Petaluma
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Turtle sunning, in one of the sloughs, Shollenberger Park
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Avocets in flight, Shollenberger - these birds on in their non-breeding plumage.
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Mute swan, at the Ellis Creek Water Treatment Facility which connects to Shollenberger
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Marsh Wren in the reeds, Ellis Creek Facility
Some photos from the deck
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This male ruby-crowned kinglet visiting the deck feeders, camp meeker
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Another view, ruby-crowned kinglet near the feeders.
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Reddish fox sparrow on the fence, camp meeker
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Red-breasted nuthatch
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Red-breasted nuthatch drinking at the hanging water feeder, camp meeker
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Townsend warbler in a fir tree near the deck.
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The little kinglet again, this could be a female.
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Acorn Woodpecker at one of the suet feeders.
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White-breasted nuthatch with a seed
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Chestnut-backed chickadee contemplates a bath, camp meeker
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Red-tailed hawk lands in tall tree near the deck
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As soon as the hawk realizes it's been spotted, it takes off for a more private perch.
1 Comment
Laura
11/1/2016 01:33:15 pm

Dear Mz o'Dowd----more than mildly ghoulish!
Signed, the kestrel mouse

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