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Shoot 2025-11-17-103328

This gallery covers the first half of November, featuring winter birds like gulls and raptors. There were some unexpected good birds like Northern Shrike and Black-crowned Night Heron.

My "birds in review" collages can be found here.

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8:52AM Monday November 03, 2025

Golden-crowned Sparrow, Acorn Woodpecker, Steller's Jay (Coastal)

A large mixed flock of birds was feeding on berries up in the trees and on other things down on the ground. I saw some Acorn Woodpeckers foraging on the ground too, which was cool to see.

8:54AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:54AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:54AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:54AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:55AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:55AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:55AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

8:56AM Monday November 03, 2025

Golden-crowned Sparrow, Acorn Woodpecker

8:57AM Monday November 03, 2025

Golden-crowned Sparrow, Acorn Woodpecker

9:05AM Monday November 03, 2025

American Robin

9:06AM Monday November 03, 2025

Cedar Waxwing

9:08AM Monday November 03, 2025

Acorn Woodpecker

Acorn storage in the tree.

8:34AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:34AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:34AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:35AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:35AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:36AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:43AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Harrier

There is a distant pair of Northern Harriers in a mid-air tussle. This is mostly a habitat photo.

8:46AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:46AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

8:56AM Thursday November 06, 2025

unknown

8:56AM Thursday November 06, 2025

unknown

This gull was about 3,475 feet away, and I couldn't ID it. On the computer later I noticed I had 31 decently sharp frames, so I tried my upscaling (crude "drizzle") and alignment code on the 31 images. I ended up with this shot with 9x the pixels of each individual stacked frame, and a decent amount of detail revealed, but I still couldn't ID the gull. It looks like an Olympic Gull (Western/Glaucous-winged hybrid): Western Gull but with wingtips that aren't black enough, but I can't be sure.

9:04AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Red-shouldered Hawk

9:04AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Red-shouldered Hawk

9:09AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike, Mourning Dove

9:09AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike, Mourning Dove

9:09AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike, Mourning Dove

The Northern Shrike lunged at the dove. The dove escaped easily. I'm not sure how often they eat prey that big, but perhaps they get lucky from time to time.

9:09AM Thursday November 06, 2025

Northern Shrike

9:41AM Friday November 07, 2025

Red-tailed Hawk

9:41AM Friday November 07, 2025

Red-tailed Hawk

9:54AM Friday November 07, 2025

Red-tailed Hawk

10:22AM Friday November 07, 2025

Red-tailed Hawk

10:23AM Friday November 07, 2025

Red-tailed Hawk

11:04AM Sunday November 09, 2025

Glaucous-winged Gull

11:04AM Sunday November 09, 2025

Glaucous-winged Gull