An interesting year, 2009… and it’s ending on an interesting note – the first “blue moon” since 1990. Here’s a photo I took a few minutes ago (maybe I’ll take some Canon EOS training classes in 2010 🙂
While I’m at the keyboard, here’s a pic I took of the hawk who claims our area as its territory. This was two days ago as I was heading out on my bike ride. The hawk is up in the walnut tree, scouting for breakfast. Strangely enough, our roof-living mourning doves weren’t on the roof waiting to be served as breakfast for the hawk 😉 Immediately after I finished taking about 10 pics of the hawk, it was buzzed by Molly and followed by a couple of crows (or ravens, I’m not sure which they are).
Here’s hawk: (click the pic – hawk’s pretty cool looking in this shot)
And finally, here’s one of our local Molly’s. In this photo, Molly had just alighted on the almond tree after furiously buzzing the hawk a few times. Molly stayed where it was to watch the excitement of hawk being buzzed… and leaving the area in what appeared to be a sauntering style of flight. (click the pic for a close up of Molly)