My friend had taught me the call of the hermit thrush because you way more often hear a hermit thrush than see one.
And so, I was watching black vultures when I heard, looked and then saw this lovely bird.
Jordan Lake
Categorystrike
a classic strike and fish capture by a bald eagle
glory
oh, the glory of being a 3 year-old bald eagle
oh, drat
The red-shouldered hawk’s face says it all: oh, drat, those pesky crows have found me.
Within seconds there were 5 more crows loudly telling the neighborhood they had found an intruder.
tilt
did someone say tilt?
this yearling bald eagle seems to have thought so…
straight up
Petruchio came flashing through the trees from the right, on a horizontal line below the nest,
sat on his tail and flew nearly vertical up to the nest and over the rim
talk about an eagle being a powerful flier…
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