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This hawk was riding the updraft above the coastal bluffs.

Looking up at a hawk in the sky with its wings stretched out.

Looking up at a hawk in the sky with its wings stretched out and forward.

Chasing Hawks

Hawk Chase

Three smaller birds tried to chase away a pair of hawks from an electrical tower. One of them flew off while they chased it. The other waited a bit, then flew off to join the first one circling farther away.

Cooper’s Hawk (in tree, portrait)

A medium-sized brown bird with black stripes on the tail, mottled white/gray on the wings and head, yellow eyes and a sharp, hooked beak, perched on a tree branch and backlit with sky and green leaves behind it.

Probably a Cooper’s Hawk, also spotted on the same walk this afternoon. It flew up to a telephone pole, alighted there for a few seconds, and as I was trying to line up a shot with the camera, it took off again, then flew a few houses down the street to perch in this tree.

#nature #birds #hawk

On iNaturalist
Full Photo (also on Flickr)

TODO: Full image is on Flickr. Is this crop there also? Is either on K2R?

Two Hawks on a Tower

Two (probably red-tailed) hawks spotted on an electrical tower, one looking north, one looking east. I often see one perched up there, watching for prey, but rarely two!

I don’t usually see *two* hawks on this tower!

First Hawk on iNaturalist
Second Hawk on iNaturalist

SDCC TBT! @casualcosplaykatie & Speed Force’s own @kelsonv as Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick & Yomiko Readman aka The Paper

! @casualcosplaykatie & Speed Force’s own @kelsonv as Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick & Yomiko Readman aka The Paper from Read or Die, at Comic Con International in 2009.

Photo taken at: Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center

#SDCC #TBT! @casualcosplaykatie & Speed Force’s own @kelsonv as Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick & Yomiko Readman aka The Paper from Read or Die, at Comic Con International in 2009.

Sadly, we don’t have anyone on site at #ComicCon this year. We’re following along online with everyone else! (We’ve posted this a couple of times, so I thought I’d try some post-processing using AfterFocus to blur the background. Not bad, though the edges are a little sharp.)

NOTE: The original photo is on K2R, Flickr and Speed Force. Need to see if I’ve used (or at least saved!) the background-blurred version anywhere already.

Afternoon in the woods…

Photo taken at: Switzer Falls-Bear Canyon

Afternoon in the woods.

We had lunch at a picnic area below Angeles Crest Highway. Oak trees covered most of the area with acorns and leaves, and a stream cut down the bottom of the canyon just a few paces away, well fed by the last few weeks of storms.

A foot bridge led across the stream to a trail to Switzer Falls, but we didn’t have time to explore. Or maybe we did – there was no distance printed on the sign, so it could have been just around the bend as easily as it could have been a 30-minute walk.

#forest #afternoonlight #sangabrielmountains #angelesnationalforest

OK, so it’s a bit of a cliche, but the twirling umbrella seemed the best fit…

OK, so it’s a bit of a cliche, but the #twirling #umbrella seemed the best fit for the #pixlr #onecolor challenge. #rain

Full-color version

What a glorious feeling…

So I had this big plan to set up a still life with J’s tap shoes for the Singing In The Rain theme. Let’s just say that didn’t work out.

Then it started to rain, and of course four-year-olds love walking in the rain, so we went out, and on the way back I noticed he was twirling his umbrella, totally unprompted, so I pulled out my phone.

Sometimes the off-the-cuff moments trump the planned ones.

One-color version

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