The football game’s over but not too late for a game-day bird gallery! Let’s start with some real-life hawks:
Jerry Simmons photographed those two juvenile Cooper’s Hawks – and this non-juvenile, bathed in sunrise light, too:
Lorabeth Lawson shows us a California Scrub-Jay examining a bogus bird:
Jon Anderson sent this House Finch photo much earlier in the summer, but hey, beauty is timeless:
Look closely for the burst of color from the prey this Great Blue Heron photographed by Gary Jones is holding:
Kim Petram caught a Hummingbird at work:
Even an everyday Gull can look noble in the sunset glow – Theresa Arbow-O’Connor sent this photo:
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