here in sammamishland, my forest has become even more raucous over the last
hour, as a cooper's hawk perched itself about 20 metres up and 20 metres out
from my porch... i'm not sure why i expected things to quiet down; it
didn't, getting quite a bit noisier as the chickadees and jays put on a
display of alarm-sounding, with the occasional jay even "thinking" about
harrassing said hawk closely, then thinking better of that decision before
getting too close...

while the hawk held sway over the south side, i was quickly buzzed by a
hummer, which given the season was probably an anna's female... i say
"probably," as it wasn't long ago i had a reasonable photo of a rufous
female who hadn't received her 2007 migration memo; there wasn't enough
light for today's photo to tell definitively...

to add to the fun and games, there was also a fly-over of geese (about
70-80, some of which looked like snow geese), and eight cranes of some
variety (sandhills?) about 10 minutes earlier...

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
george davis creek, north fork