[Up] [Previous] [Next]

August 28th
September 11th
October 1st
November 6th

Saturday, August 28^th, 2004. 1st Saturday II hawkwatch of 2004 season — and Lillian's farewell.



Saturday, September 11^th, 2004. 2nd hawkwatch. It started foggy, it ended foggy, and there were some birds in between.
Baby garter snake			Turkey vulture over SF
		Juvenile northern harrier	ditto
Juvenile red-tailed hawk	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto
Saturday, September 25^th, 2004. 3rd hawkwatch is fogged out! So we go for a stroll in Rodeo Valley, and see a nice lot of birds anyway. (We saw lots of harriers and accipters, and a merlin, none of which stuck around long enough to be pictured here.)
Adult red-tail perched on a rock, looking very pleased with himself	Great horned owl	ditto	ditto
ditto	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto	Owl and owl	Pipevine swallowtail (battus philenor)	Hmmm!
Loggerhead shrike	Female American kestrel	Shrike meets kestrel	Song sparrow
Ditto	More shrike	Oh sing me the fweebles of the butcher bird shrike Who impales his morsels on the thorny bush spike. Who spiteful and taunting struts his barbed display Then dips in his swing-flight to the kestrel's dismay. But when scuttle and fur fall silent in the grass He returns to his trophies and takes his repast. So beetle be timid and dragonfly fly And mouse be ye lowly or you'll soon be strung high, For I'm hearing the fweebles of the butcher bird shrike and I think that he's dreaming of where he'll next strike.
ditto	ditto
ditto	Male kestrel	ditto	'The bay area's friendliest bird', the California towhee
Green heron	ditto	Soaring female kestrel, from the Hawk Hill Annex	ditto
ditto	ditto	ditto	ditto
ditto	ditto
Friday, October 1^st, 2004.



















Saturday, October 9^th, 2004. 3rd Saturday II day.


































Saturday, November 6^th, 2004. 5th Saturday II day. Fogged off again! This time the compensation was a fly-by from a broadwing and a walk-by from a coyote.
Juv. double-crested coromorant		Coyote







			Broad-winged hawk (and following)