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| Recap and Return Click on images to see larger versions Nice to be back and to have my schedule eased a bit. Bird Light Wind is up and running again. Here are a few of the moments from weeks past. | Posted: December 17, 2008 | |
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A Red-tailed Hawk demonstrates his nictitating membrane. |
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A young male Harrier in setting sunlight. |
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A Say's Phoebe hunting for insects near the stables in the Marin Headlands. |
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A gopher meets its end when plucked from its burrow by a determined Great Blue Heron. |
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A male Northern Harrier looks for a place to digest a recent meal. |
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On the alert, a Wrentit gives me the eye. |
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A female Kestrel dives on an insect from her perch atop powerlines. |
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Can you find the Peregrine Falcon that haunts the frenzied shorebirds near Woodbridge Road? |
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Lovely birds... even the last Meadowlark of the day is a treat. |
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Stretching out, a lady Belted Kingfisher prepares for flight. |
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A Redtail pair sits among the winter colors at Woodbridge road. |
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A Ferruginous Hawk stares back as I photograph it from the back of a moving car. |
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A Northern Harrier keeps his bright yellow eye on things over a field in Solano County. |
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Sprinting toward a rival on the PFA lagoon in San Francisco. |
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Subduing a 3-spined Stickleback is serious business for this Snowy Egret. |
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Cruising in past the gulls and Great Blue, this Snowy finds a spot to dabble in the Marina. |
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A Cormorant touching down on Crissy Lagoon. |
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Great Blue over truck at Crissy field.. |
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Clutching a meal to go in its talons. |
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Coughing up a pellet of indigestible gopher fur.... yum. |
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An another note, I finished teaching my Atelier course at the California College of Art and this is the work of one of my students, Joy Umali. We installed and photographed it by the light of the moon, at Rodeo Beach, before dawn. |
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Copyright Notice - Images, graphic design, and text ©2007 Walter Kitundu, San Francisco, California.
It is unlawful to reproduce or distribute these images via any medium, digital or physical, without the express consent of the artist/photographer.