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Surely there are dickey birds that bathe and drink from the big pool, but Rich's cam photographed only the big birds, like the band-tailed pigeon and a raven that was a little too blurry to post.
The red-shouldered hawk was there to bathe.
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And so was the great-horned owl. Rich says, "The owl looks like it could be young or a molting adult. There were two shots of it, one up higher on the rocks, then a couple minutes later this one at pool level. It was last Friday at 2:30 PM, which was a hot day all over the area."
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2 comments:
All killer, but that Band-tailed Pigeon is just stunning. I'm jealous- would kill for a shot that nice of that species- they seem to be really shy & retiring (unless they are mobbing cracked corn on someone's feeder tray, but that setting leaves a little something to be desired...)
Thanks Bill, and congratulations on your recent successes getting bird photos into print.
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