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Raptors

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Through the Lens of Glenn Nevill

July 28, 2010 Raptors

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. ~ Irving Penn A photograph’s true essence is visceral: How does it make you feel? What does the image inspire? It’s an impression that defies pixel peeping — where the mood and meaning of [...]

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Ari the Falcon Fledges

May 21, 2010 Baby Animals

The San Francisco falcons growing up on a ledge at the PG&E building in San Francisco are fledging. Palladin took off a few days ago and at last report, was perched atop a nearby structure. This is recently uploaded video of another baby, Ari, taking that first leap off the ledge. You can fast forward [...]

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Patriotic Red-Tail

April 9, 2010 Raptors

I didn’t realize until I came upon this photo today, that I have a minor theme in my image archives: birds posing with flags. This is the first bird-patriot picture to creep into the Today’s Photo feature.

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Sharpie . . . Probably

April 4, 2010 Raptors

I shot this image of a Sharpie or Cooper’s at Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery last week, and ran the photo by my resident expert, Bird Master. She thought it was a Sharpie, but couldn’t say with certainty in the absence of a more detailed photo.

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Why Love the Uglies?

March 12, 2010 Raptors

This photo inspired this post: I uploaded it to Flickr — where one of my favorite Flickr people had this to say: It bothers me when people call them “ugly” or something like that . . . We have to learn and to accept . . . that all the living things are ok – [...]

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Lessons of the Totem Animals

January 2, 2010 Philosophically Speaking

Years ago, I found a book on animal totems — after pulling an all-nighter with a Navajo friend who clued us in to the shamanistic roots of animal guides and animal medicine. In this Native American spiritual tradition, we each have nine totem animals who walk with us on this life path. They appear when [...]

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Red-Tail Drifting on Thermals

September 29, 2009 Raptors

A Red-tailed Hawk rises with the thermals on the western slopes of Coyote Hills Regional Park. I snapped this image on the tail end of yesterday’s hike along the marshes and pelican ponds.

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Secret Digs of the Great Horned Owl

September 15, 2009 East Bay

Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.

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San Francisco’s Peregrine Falcons & Fledglings

June 5, 2009 Baby Animals

Originally posted in June of 2009, this piece deals with the new fledglings on top of San Francisco’s PG&E Building, but also with general issues of wildlife survival and human interaction.

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R.I.P. “Hi” – San Francisco’s Young Peregrine Falcon

May 28, 2009 Baby Animals

This video compresses days 20 to 32 in the lives of three Peregrine Falcon eyasses (chicks) nesting in the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco. See photos and visual logs of the young San Francisco Peregrines in local photographer Glenn Nevill’s Raptor Galleries. And learn more about the Peregrine Falcon research at the website of [...]

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Bald Eagle Recovery Story

May 7, 2009 Endangered Species

I just read this piece by British Columbia wildlife biologist David Hancock. It’s posted at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation website, a site I found by way of their Bald Eagle cam at Sidney, B.C. Hancock’s account traces the eagle’s trajectory from pre-1950s “vermin” status to today’s recovery of populations in both urban and wild settings. [...]

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Candid Falcon-Cam in San Francisco

May 4, 2009 Baby Animals

If you tune into UCSC’s Peregrine Nest Cam while the youngsters are stumbling over themselves, it might be tough to connect these awkward chicks to their agile parents — who happen to be the fastest birds in the skies. Peregrine Falcons are also the speediest creatures on the planet. Their stoop (diving) speeds can exceed [...]

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Video: California Condor Released After Gunshot Wounds & Lead Poisoning

May 2, 2009 Endangered Species

Update May 13, 2009: Sadly, the second bird, Condor 286 did not recover from lead poisoning, and died at the LA Zoo on Monday, May 11. The full story is here at the Ventura County Star. California Condor 375 was released back into the wild on May 1, 2009. She was one of two condors [...]

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Helping the Carrion Eaters (or, Avoiding Secondary Road Kill)

May 1, 2009 Raptors

Years ago, Hugh and I were coming home from a late show and noticed a crew of stray cats feeding in the middle of the road. We slowed down and saw that someone had dumped a load of meat parts in the middle of a normally busy street. The strays were simply taking advantage of [...]

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Bird and Windmill Collisions at Altamont

December 3, 2008 Raptors

One of the tragic patients we get at the wildlife hospital where I volunteer is raptors such as hawks, who’ve suffered an encounter with a windmill. Unlike Quixote’s imaginary foes, the windmills through Altamont Pass present a viable lethal threat to wildlife of the area. In fact, Altamont Pass has the highest bird kill rate [...]

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