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You can see she has beheaded the Short- billed Corella to make it easier to carry .The prey is always facing tail to tail with most raptors as far as I know for ease of carry. You can see the 'Tomial' tooth on the top of the beak which fits into a corresponding slot in the lower Mandible. Interesting colouration on this bird. Could be a young-ish one .We will see next season.

Photo of a female Brown-headed Cowbird taken at the Laguna Seca Ranch in deep South Texas on 9 May 2026. OM1 II and Olympus 50-200 f/2.8, 1/160 sec, f/2.8, iso 2500. I typically use shutter speeds between 1/160 and 1/320 sec for images taken when it's raining. I think this presentation is more visually appealing than the previous photo taken at 1/80 sec, even though I think...

I'm a sucker for wood ducks. These were the first I ever saw 20 feet up on a tree branch.

I manages to creep up on this hare, they are difficult to spot at this time of the year due to the height of the crops. It was early morning in shaded area, this is hand held, I took quite a few images gradually reducing my shutter speed down to 1/40 sec. The surrounding corn was constantly blowing and I have made alternative images where I have cleaned up some of the leave...

A photo of a female Brown-headed Cowbird photographed at the Laguna Seca Ranch in deep South Texas last month. OM ii, Olympus 50-200 f/2.8, 1/80 sec, f/2.8, iso 2500. It was raining very hard and typically I will use between 1/320 and 1/160 second to "streak" the rain. Thought that I would try 1/80 sec to see what it would do and this is the result. I'm not sure about how t...