SmugMug > keywords > juv > On a recent outing with the Itasca Birding Club, we came across some playful Red Fox kits.  Here is one of them caught in mid-air as it ran across in front of us.  I’m always amazed at the big bushy tail they have.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > This juvenile male Bufflehead was preening at Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach, CA.  The bufflehead is our smallest duck in North America and for me has been very dificult to approach.  This was my best action shot on this day.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > Over the President’s Day weekend I joined my friend Alan Knothe and members of the Choctawhatchee Audubon Society for two days of birding.  We explored areas from Apalachicola to Bald Point and Alligator Point and up into the Apalachicola National Forest.  We drove in a caravan of cars and as we approached one of our stops we noticed a car stopped right in the middle of the road.  Then we saw the driver out taking a photo.  So we also stopped and found this very cooperative juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk sitting on a tree stump about 20 feet away.  Pretty soon cars from both directions were stopping and people were getting out to take pictures of this bird.  It seemed totally unconcerned and finally flew away to pursue some item of food.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > This Juvenile Magnificent Frigatebird was photographed in flight in La Ventana,MX.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > This Juvenile Night Heron was about to land on a perch in Ding Darling NWR Sanibel Island, FL.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > Ferruginous Hawks are the largest hawks found in the United States.  Their range is the western half of the U.S. in open, dry country.  They hunt by soaring across the plains and then swooping down to catch medium-sized mammals like ground squirrels, pocket gophers, young jackrabbits, and prairie dogs.   This is a light morph Ferruginous Hawk.  We were driving by a Prairie Dog town in the Badlands. The hawk was on the ground and only about 30 feet from the road.  We stopped and discovered that, by staying in our car, it didn’t see us as a threat.  It was concentrating on eating the Prairie Dog it had caught.
SmugMug > keywords > juv > Aug 23, 2009 - Fox, Wildflowers, and Insects >  Juv _Jacquqes R 26 sept08 470
SmugMug > keywords > juv > Aug 23, 2009 - Fox, Wildflowers, and Insects >  Juv _Jacquqes R 26 sept08 410
SmugMug > keywords > juv > Semi Palmated Plover juvenile at Montrose 9-6-07
On a recent outing with the Itasca Birding Club, we came across some playful Red Fox kits. Here is one of them caught in mid-air as it ran across in front of us. I’m always amazed at the big bushy tail they have.
 > On a recent outing with the Itasca Birding Club, we came across some playful Red Fox kits.  Here is one of them caught in mid-air as it ran across in front of us.  I’m always amazed at the big bushy tail they have.
On a recent outing with the Itasca Birding Club, we came across some playful Red Fox kits. Here is one of them caught in mid-air as it ran across in front of us. I’m always amazed at the big bushy tail they have.
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