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| Red-shouldered Hawk in Screech Mode, Golden Gate Park |
It hasn't even been winter for a month, but it's already looking, feeling, and sounding like spring around here. Blue skies and cool temperatures, green grass and miner's lettuce, and juncos trilling their territorial song. The red-shouldered hawks seem to screech just about any time of year, but I've seen a few instances of them pairing up lately (which might mean nothing at all, just a fluke that I happen to have seen only recently).
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| The hawk on the left is the one that was screeching in the topmost photo, and it flew over to join the other hawk on its branch. The hawk on the right soon flew to another nearby tree. |
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| The remaining hawk hopped around to try out some new branches to perch on. |
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| I'm still seeing the Say's phoebe at the Balboa Natural Area from time to time, but I haven't seen the Cliff House yellow-rumper in a while. |
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| I stopped to photograph this hawk near the Beach Chalet to see if it was banded, and indeed it was. This is probably the one who devoured a mouse right in front of me back in early October. |
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