Wow, I haven't been updating this thread at all lately, you all have my apologies
. Life's been busy for the better or worse lately, and we recently visited the US again and I managed to get in some herping too
. Anyways, here's some important photos I took of birds since the last time I posted some photos:
In order from first to last, we have a
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) literally the day after photographing the
Be'er sheva fringe-toed lizard (Acanthodactylus beershebensis) , then a little later on the Israel trip I managed to photograph a
Pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus) with a
Black crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) in the lower right of the photo. In the next photo, I managed to photograph a
Semicollared flycatcher (Ficedula semitorquata) on migration. During the same spring migration, I saw a
Long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus) being mobbed by a pair of
Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) while it was presumably returning to more northern latitudes. A little time after that (And some plane travel
) I managed to photograph both a
Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii), which is a species many of you may see attempting to hunt small birds around where you live, and ironically a light morph
Red tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) being mobbed by an
American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) showing that even when separated by large bodies of water, you can still see many similarities between related species
