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| American Robin Gathering Blackberries Near Mallard Lake |
I encountered a family of robins making a ruckus as I approached Mallard Lake from the west, with adults gathering ripening blackberries to feed to their young progeny. Most of the fledglings remained hidden behind a thick canopy of California buckeye leaves. The adults would dart in with a berry, then dart right back out to get more. Eventually the fledglings came out into the open, and the whole group kept moving west in their tireless search for sustenance.
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| Lefty was out in his hunting area again this morning. Something in the nearby foliage got his attention a few times, but he never pounced. I'd thought the snipped left ear was due to a fight with another animal, but apparently it's what vets do after they catch a feral cat, which they sterilize and vaccinate before returning it to the wild. The clipped ear serves notice that the cat doesn't need to be caught again. |
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| Anna's Hummingbird Nectaring On Karo Flowers |
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| Bumblebee Napping on Wild Radish |
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| Allen's Hummingbird Nectaring on Wild Radish |
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| Song Sparrow in Wild Radish Patch |
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| Every time I see a hummingbird in the mustards and radishes, it's an Allen's. |
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| American Robin With Blackberry for Junior |
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| Junior, The Fledgling Robin |
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| Allen's Hummingbird Ruffling Its Feathers |
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| Here she is unruffled, but still looking a bit ruffled anyway. |
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| I had a little better luck with a brown creeper today. |
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| Brown Creeper, Golden Gate Park |
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| Brown Creeper With Caterpillar |
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| I haven't been seeing black-crowned night herons very much lately at North Lake, and I've been pleasantly surprised each rare time I do see one or two. |
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| I wondered if they are actually there almost all the time, but tucked away in more concealed locations. |
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| Looking out my bedroom window, I spotted a pair of fledgling crows hanging out on my neighbor's roof (the same neighbor with the chickadee nest box). The crows were born in a small pine tree that I can see from our back yard. |
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| They were very relaxed as long as I was behind a window, but they flew away as soon as I actually stepped outside. |
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| While I was out there I stopped to check out the red-masked parakeets in my neighbor's oak tree. |
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| Some brilliant eruptions going on at Kilauea the other day.... |
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