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A Grosbeak in flight in the tree canopy. Green maple leaves against a distant blue sky and a show-stopping bird with pink axillary, or underarm 🤣 feathers soaring through the frame from left to right.
A tiny but chunky reddish brown bat with cute little black eyes hangs upside down with their wings tucked under their chin. They are in an evergreen with dappled light in the background.
A close up photo of a Golden Eagle peering over her shoulder. The golden nape feathers are visible. The background is a rich blue sky
A ventral view of a female belted kingfisher with her wings spread showing the bright white undersides and rusty wingpits and belt. Her tail is a dazzling array of black and white patterning and she has a fish grasped in her bill.
A hawk leaps into the night air illuminated by a flash from below. Darkened tree branches can be seen in the background.
A Cooper’s seen hawk seen from the back with wings flared over a lunging squirrel. The squirrel is lunging AT the hawk to defend themselves.
A Cooper’s hawk descends on a squirrel who is reared up on their hind legs, moth agape, reaching toward the hawk in an aggressive defensive posture. This is happening in someone’s lawn.
A richly colored red-tailed Hawk rises into the sky on outstretched wings in front of distant, wind-gnarled cypress trees barely visible through the dense fog.
A Cooper’s hawk prepares to eat a house sparrow by lifting the sparrow up by her right leg. The scene takes place on thick branch in a Honey locust tree. The composition suggests a circle as the hawk looks down toward the sparrow while the sparrow’s head is upturned facing the hawk.
A hawk in the lower right of the picture looks out into a blurred colorful backdrop of dappled light and foliage.
Two cabbage white butterflies adrift against a dark background
A Peregrine Falcon flying left to right in profile holding prey remains in her yellow talons. The background is the Pacific Ocean.
A male Yellow-headed Blackbird holding a winged insect in their bill. Their glowing rich yellow head and chest contrasting their black flecks and legs. The background is a uniform blue gray from the water in the marsh in which they live.
A barn swallow takes off near a shallow greenish puddle with their tail feathers bent upward and wings in a powerful downstroke. They are partially reflected in the calm water.
An immature summer Tanager flies toward the left of the screen with wings spread, offering a great view of the top of the bird.
A coyote leaps into the air with mouth open grasping at a black ring of fabric while another looks on. The setting is a grass field in a cemetery and gravestones are visible in the background
A profile image of a male Belted Kingfisher flying to the right with a fish in his bill.
A goldfinch aggressively defends their spot on a bird feeder from an approaching house sparrow!
A Rose-breasted Grosbeak perched on the top of a green bird feeder with their head turned to look over their shoulder.
A red-winged blackbird mobs a red-tailed hawk who is walking from one part of a power pole to the other. Both birds have their left legs extended.
A Cooper’s hawk mantling, raising its feathers in an aggressive display while perched on a branch in the Forest.
A crow chases a great horned owl into the trees. Seen from behind we see the top of both birds as they ascend.
A close up male Peregrine falcon carrying a newly caught juvenile starling. The prey bird is clutched in the falcons talons and is still alive with its bill open.
A close up of a red winged blackbird vocalizing with red epaulets flaring.
A Golden-winged Warbler hops between branches with feet dangling as if running on air.
A warbler skulking in the leaves eyes a small black flying insect moments before devouring it.
A male and female Peregrine falcon leaping off the same ledge toward the camera
A dorsal view of an adult Peregrine falcon landing on a ledge with wings outstretched.
A red-tailed hawk taking off with a freshly caught gopher in her right foot.
A male Peregrine Falcon flying right to left against a pale blue sky with wings held high and the remains of a pigeon in his clutches.
A Brewer’s Blackbird is perched on bones, perhaps the joint of a cow leg, and is picking at what remains. An out of focus blackbird looks on from the left and a Starling waits their turn in the background.