There are days on the Laguna de Santa Rosa when all a person will see are birds. Like today. Beside a couple of hunters, an angry bee and some admittedly goofy looking holstein cattle, it was a bird paradise.
I was able to make quite a few decent images. The content in a few of the photographs below are firsts for me. I’ve never photographed a hawk hunting before, amazingly the bird never even flinched as it flew past me barely 15 yards away. Either I look like a tree (I’ve been called that a few times) or the hawk, which hangs out with it’s mate in the area south of Occidental Road, has adapted to the big guy with a white lens.
All this on the last day of fall 2013 and 65 beautiful degrees.
A Cooper's hawk descends on prey at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Friday Dec. 20, 2013 (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2013
A Cooper's hawk descends on prey at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Friday Dec. 20, 2013 (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2013
A Cooper's hawk looks for prey at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Friday Dec. 20, 2013 (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2013
Geese fly above the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Friday Dec. 20, 2013, and below the waning full moon. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2013
A cormorant takes off with a small catfish at the Laguna de Santa Rosa, Friday Dec. 20, 2013. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2013
-Kent Porter
