wmpe2000: male & female gambel's quail
wmpe2000: we had lunch on a lower outcropping near black vultures roosting after being chased off the peak by a million small insects looking for a place to land (arms, legs, eyes, mouth, nose)
wmpe2000: black vulture seen from above
wmpe2000: quail - male & female
wmpe2000: western king bird on an ocotillo
wmpe2000: great blue heron flying away from its nest after feeding its immature herons
wmpe2000: great blue heron flying away from its nest after feeding its immature herons
wmpe2000: hawk soaring
wmpe2000: double crested cormorant - bantam lake
wmpe2000: cedar waxwings in peach trees
wmpe2000: quail family in the backyard
wmpe2000: elegant terns
wmpe2000: thayers gull
wmpe2000: "No, there’s no escaping, nor would I want to escape this outgo, this foot-loosening, this solution to gravity and a single shape. Now I am here, later I will be there. I will be that small cloud, staring down at the water, the one that stalls,
wmpe2000: red tailed hawk
wmpe2000: red-tailed hawk and raven
wmpe2000: California ravens - Corvus sinuatus
wmpe2000: raven perching on Torrey pine tree snag near the the mouth of the Canyon of the Swifts
wmpe2000: wider view of Canyon of the Swifts - ravens have a 53 inch wingspan and weigh 2.5 lbs
wmpe2000: red tailed hawking soaring
wmpe2000: Osprey soaring at cliff top level
wmpe2000: Pelecanus occidentalis
wmpe2000: juvenile brown pelicans catching the morning sun