Wildlife On The Hill Playlist

I’ve been posting on my Facebook page allot so here’s some video’s to catch you up!

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As always, enjoy your local wildlife and have a great day!   🙂

Picture The Mood

What is the color of your emotion? Do certain colors make you feel happy or sad?
I love how color, color depth or lack there of, can change how you feel about a picture.
Here’s some examples from my latest photos. You may click on each photo which will open into a larger photo, then click your back button to return.
Which pictures speak the loudest to you?

Framed Spotted Fawn with tongue out

Black & White photo of Spotted Fawn with tongue out

Framed Black & White Sharp-shinned Hawk

Framed Sharp-shinned Hawk

Framed spotted fawn

Black and White Framed Fox Photograph

Framed Red Fox

Framed HDR Toned Red Fox

Sharp-shinned Hawk framed within the Trellis

All of these photos were taken in my backyard, and could be seen by looking out the window in our living room. If you enjoyed your visit today, please share my blog with someone you know who enjoys wildlife. 🙂

Poolside Hawk

The Hawks have been all around the pool lately, I caught one walking across the solar cover and another using the slide!

Sharp Shinned Hawk Crop

As the parents teach their young one how to hunt, I’m glad to say I haven’t seen them be successful yet. Not that they haven’t been mind you, I just didn’t bare witness to any successful attacks. But I do enjoy watching them zoom around the yard, and listening to the sound of them calling back and forth to each other.
Don’t forget to shake your tail feathers!
~Thea
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Hawk Hunting *Updated with more pictures

I’ve been watching for a couple of weeks now a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawk’s which has been really interesting. The little birds give them away with their squawks of alert whenever the hawks are around and I like seeing the hawks but I’m cheering for the little birds and yell at the hawks when they are coming in for an attack. Today, to my surprise there were three hawks, one of them being a young hawk that they are trying to teach to hunt. The young one was very chatty, squeaking and squawking and I was able to get some good pictures of him after his failed attempt at capturing one of the little birds. He sat in the tree in open view for a good 10 minutes before flying back with his parents. Here’s some of the photos I captured of him.

Swooped by a Sharp Shinned Hawk–Swoop there it is!

As you may have noticed by now I love all forms of wildlife! I have bird feeders all over my yard and enjoy watching the year round birds and the seasonal birds as they visit my feeders. I have a triple tube pole feeder with a seed catch tray underneath it mounted over a large burning bush which makes great cover protection from predator birds, located at the corner of my patio.
One day I was standing out on the patio enjoying the birds at the feeder when all of sudden they all screamed in unison and dove into the burning bush branches as a Sharp Shinned Hawk swooped past my head trying to get one of the birds who had been visiting the feeder. I yelled and waved my arms at the hawk who I don’t even think saw me till then. It took off away from the bush and flew right into the screened door on our sliding glass door and bounced down to the floor of the patio practically right at my feet! This had all happened so quickly I was rather freaked out and ran for the house. I grabbed my camera and got a few shots of the Sharp Shinned Hawk as it regained its composure and actually tried to fly into the burning bush one last time before it flew up into a tree to monitor from a distance.

I love my wildlife!
Thanks for Listening to Thea