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Tag: Backyard Wildlife

Close up of male Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)

Mating Season (5 of 366)

Posted onJanuary 5, 2016January 5, 2016Leave a comment

Here he is, in his full puffed out glory. The male turkey whose feathers created the nice abstract for yesterday’s post. While eating breakfast this past weekend, the kids noticed that “the turkeys were back”.  What started out as a small rafter of Read More …

Categories2016 Photo a Day, Gear, Photos, WildlifeTags2016, Backyard Wildlife, Photo A Day, Turkeys

Backyard Protector – Red Shouldered Hawk

Posted onJune 23, 20121 Comment

For the past few days we have had a new visitor to our backyard. This afternoon I was finally able to catch a photo of this juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk. Today alone we spotted him (her?) sitting on our backyard fence Read More …

CategoriesNature, Photos, WildlifeTagsBackyard Wildlife, Buteo lineatus, Hawk, Red-Shouldered Hawk

Cooper’s Hawk in the Backyard

Posted onJune 28, 2010June 28, 2010Leave a comment

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 Read More …

CategoriesPhotos, WildlifeTagsAccipiter cooperii, Backyard Wildlife, Cooper's Hawk

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted onNovember 27, 2008November 30, 2008Leave a comment

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 Read More …

CategoriesPhotos, WildlifeTagsBackyard Wildlife, Photos, Turkey

Photo: Backyard California Quail

Posted onJune 12, 2008August 10, 2008Leave a comment

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 Read More …

CategoriesPhotos, WildlifeTagsBackyard Wildlife, California Quail

Shake Those Tail Feathers

Posted onNovember 23, 2007Leave a comment

CategoriesPhotosTagsBackyard Wildlife

Backyard Pardon

Posted onNovember 23, 2007Leave a comment

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 Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsBackyard Wildlife, Turkey

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