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A turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) soars above the Mill Pond after dining at the city landfill down the road. Fall, Mine Falls Park
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A family of crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) looking for trouble in the evening in Mine Falls Park. Fall, Mine Falls Park
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A family of crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) looking for trouble in the evening in Mine Falls Park. Fall, Mine Falls Park
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A herring gull (Larus argentatus smithsonianus) glides through the clear autumn sky. Fall, Mine Falls Park
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A peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) wheels above Frankenstein Cliff as I watch from the top of Arethusa Falls. Late summer, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park
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A dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis) near the summit of Mount Jackson. Summer, Mount Jackson, White Mountain National Forest
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A gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis) with a peanut in his mouth, perched on the cairn that marks the summit of Mount Jackson. Summer, Mount Jackson, White Mountain National Forest
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Chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) foraging in the middle of the Millpond Trail. Summer, Mine Falls Park
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A Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) in a pitch pine (Pinus rigida), trying to evade the neighborhood mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos). The mockingbirds forego their normally strict territoriality in order to gang up on a hawk. Not a very good picture, I admit, but you can see the profile of this pigeon-sized raptor. I was just hanging out in the back yard when I noticed a disturbance in the trees and recognized the distinctive "let's harass the hawk" call of the mockingbirds. It's just a loud "clack," but the mockingbirds know what it means. Summer, my back yard, Nashua, NH
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A Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) in a pitch pine (Pinus rigida), trying to evade the neighborhood mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos). The mockingbirds forego their normally strict territoriality in order to gang up on a hawk. Not a very good picture, I admit, but you can see the horizontal white-and-chestnut streaks on the breast and belly of this pigeon-sized raptor. I was just hanging out in the back yard when I noticed a disturbance in the trees and recognized the distinctive "let's harass the hawk" call of the mockingbirds. It's just a loud "clack," but the mockingbirds know what it means. Summer, my back yard, Nashua, NH
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A young male wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris). What is it with turkeys and pickup trucks? I'm guessing this is the same bird we saw on someone else's truck about a month earlier. I can tell it's a young male by the shorter feathers on the edges of his train. (Photo taken with older Concord Eye-Q camera.) Summer, Riverside Office Park, Andover, MA
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An eastern kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus) sits in a white birch (Betula papyrifera) on the lookout for insects. Spring, Mine Falls Park
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A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) sits in a bare oak tree beside the highway. Winter, Route 101, Milford, New Hampshire Downloaded 135 Times.
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A red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) sits in a bare oak tree beside the highway. Winter, Route 101, Milford, New Hampshire Downloaded 244 Times.
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A gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis) near the summit of Mount Jackson. Mount Webster in the background, Mount Willard nearly lost in the haze below. Late summer, Presidential Range Downloaded 103 Times.
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Hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus) digging a nest hole, mid-spring, Crawford Notch Downloaded 235 Times.
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