Jerry drives the mobile blind. Raindrops bounce in through my open window. I point the camera at the Hawk taking a break on a short wooden tree support. His color is a spot of energy in the dreary day. The iso is maxed out so I tinker with the settings. If I sacrifice DOF I can expose the film to more light, right? And if I lower the shutter speed (maybe shudder speed in the cold rain) the photo quality might improve?
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Brown Creeper. I think. "Brown Creepers are tiny woodland birds with an affinity for the biggest trees they can find. Look for these little, long-tailed scraps of brown and white spiraling up stout trunks and main branches, sometimes passing downward-facing nuthatches along the way. "
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"Early naturalists called the redshoulder “the Singing Hawk,” more in reference to the species’ incessant noisiness than to the sweetness of its sound. In their wonderfully descriptive book, Raptors of California, Hans and Pam Peeters put it bluntly: The red-shouldered hawk is perhaps “California’s noisiest raptor, often drawing attention to itself with its loud and repeated clarion calls.”"
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"...a site in Rustic Canyon known as Uplifters Ranch, a 120-acre parcel developed as a retreat for the Uplifters Club, an exclusive, male-only social group founded in the late 1800s. The elite fraternity’s membership roster included such notable names as Clark Gable, Harold Lloyd, Walt Disney, Will Rogers, Aldous Huxley, Spencer Tracy..."
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Silly bird. There was a Red Tailed Hawk sitting on a power pole nearby.
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OK. Maybe half a second. We found this guy behind the drained community pool. We almost broke our necks walking through the brush back there.
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