Every now and again we’ll find a pile of gray bird feathers in our backyard, evidence that our local Cooper’s Hawk caught himself another meal. Yesterday my in-law mentioned how she saw the Cooper’s Hawk sitting on the bird bath we have in our back yard. And today the entire family was lucky enough to [...]
Photography from Greg A. Lato
Tag Archive: Backyard Wildlife
Happy Thanksgiving
Updated 11/30/08: Someone pointed out to me that this looked like “a photo taken at a zoo”. Actually, this image is part of my backyard wildlife series, was taken from my patio and what you see in the background is the corner of our backyard. We have a (flock | pack | herd) of wild [...]
Photo: Backyard California Quail
This past weekend, I was leaving home to meet up with Richard Wong for a day of shooting in San Francisco. As I left home I had to slam on the breaks as crossing the road out of our cul-du-sac was a brood of California Quail. We have had a number of California Quail visiting [...]
Backyard Pardon
While working through some old photos yesterday, I found a number of photos of some of the wild Turkeys that occasionally visit our neighborhood. This Tom visited us a few months back and I was able to get this shot from about 20 feet away. This isn’t the first time that they have been over [...]
Leaving the Nest
A few days ago, my wife and I realized that a morning dove made a nest near the front door to our house. We have a couple of bird feeders in the back yard which have become favorites of a number of pairs of morning doves (they even learned how to land on the feeders [...]
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