This shot of the same Black Phoebe (after it started to fly off, then decided to just land back on another post) came out a lot better!
#birds #photo #nature
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I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.
#Fotofails: I had a lot of trouble getting the camera to focus on this Black Phoebe and not the tree behind it, but that wasn’t the problem in this shot. I always think birds look weird when you can only see the backs of their heads.
The bird saw what you did.
Audubon’s Warbler
Pooideae
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Black Phoebe
Black Phoebe
Trachycarpeae
There are decorative palm trees all along the street. And some opportunistic seeds from them.
I always like it when you can actually see the green in the post-sunset sky.
I always like it when you can actually see the green in the post-sunset sky.
Jupiter and Saturn (the night before the conjunction) are barely visible in the upper left.
#photo #night #twilight #conjunction
This cell reception is for the birds
One! Singular sensation!
One! Singular sensation!
A zillion starlings were moving back and forth between the greenbelt and an electrical transmission tower.
A flock of starlings
A flock of #starlings moving back and forth between the ground and an electrical transmission tower (neither of which you can see here, but that’s what they were doing).
American Pipit
Cassin’s Kingbird
Black Phoebe
American Pipit
American Pipit
About a dozen birds hopping around in the grass near a bike path and on the concrete under an electrical tower. From a distance I thought they were all the same, but iNat suggests that some are pipits and others are warblers.
