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mgirone3: Young Forster's Terns enjoying a late summer afternoon
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mgirone3: Young Forster's Tern demanding a second lunch
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mgirone3: Taking flight (and chilling out)
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mgirone3: Adult Forster's Tern preening
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mgirone3: Young Forster's Tern in flight
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mgirone3: Monarch Butterfly
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mgirone3: Young Northern Harrier hunting atop a former landfill along Disposal Rd.
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mgirone3: Young Northern Harrier in flight
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mgirone3: Peregrine Falcon arriving to escort Northern Harrier out of it's airspace
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mgirone3: 2 young Peregrine Falcons
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mgirone3: Young Peregrine Falcon enjoying a brisk south wind
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mgirone3: Banded young Peregrine Falcon soaring over Disposal Rd.
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mgirone3: 2 young Peregrine Falcons drifting east along Disposal Rd.
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mgirone3: Great Egret in flight over north end of Shorebird Pool
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mgirone3: Female American Kestrel with her dinner atop the landfill on Disposal Rd.
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mgirone3: Great Blue Heron in flight heading south over Disposal Rd. towards Saw Mill Creek trail
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mgirone3: Juvenile female American Kestrel flying with a grasshopper.
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mgirone3: Juvenile female American Kestrel eating grasshopper.
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mgirone3: Briefly posing with her snack.
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mgirone3: Always on the lookout!
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mgirone3: Later in the afternoon, here is the juvenile female American Kestrel flying in with another grasshopper (a favorite prey item this day).
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mgirone3: Juvenile female American Kestrel flying to a favorite dining perch.
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mgirone3: Back on her favorite perch.
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mgirone3: Flying with yet another catch.
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mgirone3: Hover-hunting near dusk.