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| Crissy Field - Beautiful and Beastly Click on images to see larger versions For the second night running, beautiful light precedes deadly acts under cover of night. | Posted: April 1, 2008 | |
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First the beautiful moments. This Anna's Hummingbird let me get very close as long as I remained calm. He kept returning to this perch after his territorial sorties. |
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Spinning around to keep a sharp eye on the surroundings. |
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The Great Blue Heron appears and passes close by. |
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Wild Turkey? No, the Heron crouches down before taking flight. |
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Taking flight in the grass dunes. |
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Making its way to the lawn where it has had great success with gophers in the past month. |
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Stabbing into a gopher's hole with great force, the Heron stretched its wings to balance. |
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Having had no luck on the lawn, the Heron flew to an elevated patch to survey the gopher holes from a distance. |
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It clearly had its sights set on this gopher. By the time I looked up, the Heron had already plucked it from its burrow and was subduing it. |
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If you are partial to swallowing your meals whole, dipping your gopher helps ease the transition. |
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External Links
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Guide | |||
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.