Odds & Ends
January, 2014
I've been stopping by Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline on my way to work off and on over the last couple of weeks. Stockpiling photos. Trying things out with the new camera. I think I've got enough interesting shots to make a post.
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| Burrowing Owl -- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
I finally found the burrowing owl out there. He seems to hang out in the same spot most mornings. From a distance he looks like a large potato that has been stuck on a stick. Actually, he looks a lot like that in the pictures, too.
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| Black-necked Stilt -- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
There's usually a small flock of stilts hanging around. They're funny looking birds.
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| Turkey Vulture -- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
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| Cooper's Hawk |
There was a dead bird on the road this morning. It attracted a few vultures. I was able to get some nice shots.
A cooper's hawk was hanging around for a while. I saw him/her a couple of times. I'm more convinced now than I was earlier that it was a cooper's hawk and not a sharp-shinned hawk. What a good looking bird.
One morning a scroungy looking red-tailed hawk was hanging out in the trees. His feet were dirty and his feathers were untidy and in general he looked like the kind of bird that worked dark alleys at night. A bad seed, if you will.I assume it was a male only because it's hard to imagine a lady hawk letting herself go like that.
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| Red-tailed Hawk -- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
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| California Towhee -- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
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| Ring-billed Gull-- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, CA |
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