Tag Archive: Backyard Wildlife

Cooper’s Hawk in the Backyard

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…

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…

Shake Those Tail Feathers

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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