Behaviors – Page 26 – Feathered Photography

Three Red-tailed Hawk Chicks Posing Perfectly In The Nest

‘Posing perfectly’ and raptor chicks almost never go together but this time was an exception.

A Female Western Tanager Gets A Surprise Visitor

A visitor to be wary of.

Violet-green Swallow – An Upside Down And Backward Takeoff

My first decent photos of this species. I’m gobsmacked by their beauty.

My First Hummingbird Photos Of The Season

Mostly female Broad-tailed Hummingbirds. I think.

Lark Sparrow Gathering Nesting Material

Lots of it. She found the mother lode of nesting material.

Male Belted Kingfisher Diving On A Fish And Then Eating His Catch

And believe it or not, this time he brought the fish close to me before gobbling it down instead of carrying it far away like he’s done repeatedly in the past.

Rockin’ And Rollin’ With A Wet Female Red-winged Blackbird

It certainly doesn’t look like it but this is actually an action shot.

A Sneaky Coyote Hunting Sandhill Cranes

The coyote obviously had crane cutlets in mind for breakfast but the cranes seemed to be taunting him, even daring him to attack. The attitude and demeanor of the cranes seemed to say “Give it your best shot, Buster”.