Another seasonally appropriate moment

It was dark and I was very surprised any of the pictures came out at all.

 

Blue on Green

Great blue heron fishing in a patch of green water plants at South Lake in Golden Gate Park.
 

Sleepy peek

I believe this is the mate of the female tucked-away owl who was showing off her hook yesterday.
 

she has a hook

My current favorite owl who I call "tucked-away owl" because she sits way up in a pine tree and is really hard to spot even when you know where to look.

I think this is a female based on the coloration. I read that females have more spots and usually are a bit more brown/darker than males. The owl I believe is her mate lives a few blocks away and seems lighter overall.

I love the way the one claw just peeks out, looking like some kind of hook on the chest.
 

Owl or Tree Troll?!

 

Cooper's hawk chilling in the woods

I came across this hawk just chilling out at about eye level. It seemed very calm and reminded me a lot of people I see chilling out on logs hidden away in Golden Gate Park.

I think this is one of the parents of the three fledglings I've been seeing in that same area.

Little nest, Big nest.

It seems to be the season. I have found a few nesting spots recently.

It's been a minute since I've seen a humming bird nest. I only spotted this one because the hummingbird was yelling at me then went and sat in the nest. I think I saw some little beaks poking out when I checked in on it yesterday.

here are a few owl nests I have spotted but this is probably the easiest to see as well as being really high and out of the way. I have been watching the pair for a few months. I think they took this nest from some hawks. The sad thing is that a few weeks after it looked like their nesting was in full effect I found one of the pair (male?) dead under one of their regular roosting trees. It looked like it had a deep gash on the back of it's neck and the way it was on the ground it looked similar to how I've seen hawks kill other birds. So maybe one of the hawks they stole the nest from got revenge? It's been a few weeks and the one owl is still on the nest. I was told it's not likely the eggs will hatch since (she?) would have to leave the nest for too long and the eggs would get too cool. I'm going to keep an eye on it just in case 🤞

I'm pulling for them but still getting disapproving looks!

 

Fun Spreckels Boats

Some fun RC boats at Spreckels Lake this weekend.

Bonus African Queen with mini Katharine Hepburn!

I guess there is also a mini Bogart but Katharine is the best! They were pretty great together in the African Queen.

I love the smoke on the Intrepid and hope to see the African Queen in action one weekend. Fingers crossed it has smoke too.

 

Coyote Awareness practice?

I came across these two who seemed to have setup a coyote awareness work shop session of some kind -;P

They were coming down the narrow path I was on and didn't seem to want to get out of the way for me and I had to shout and clap to get them to turn around so I could get off the path and keep some distance from them.

Golden Gate Park is so fun!