This American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) was only perusing the ground closely, probably looking for food, and completely unbothered by a nearby photographer. I didn’t ask what it was thinking about.
This work was Photo of the Day at Decagon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY on November 5, 2025. See Exhibitions.
The Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) can be seen in southern Arizona. A handler brought these birds back to the glove with their favorite food “quail bits” at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in 2011. She told visitors that a Harris’s Hawk family stays together and hunts as a group. Mother always dines first, no matter who provided the meal.
I learned that the Abert’s Squirrel (Sciurus aberti) consumes almost exclusively Ponderosa Pine cones and the inner bark of small pine branchlets. Unlike other squirrels, they don’t hide food for later use in winter, but like other squirrels, if you put out bird feeders, they will gladly change their diet.
Northern House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon) nest in cavities they find already carved out previously by woodpeckers in old trees or in dead trees that have had their tops broken off and are referred to as “snags”. I’ve delighted in working with the Weminuche Audubon Society folks for the past several years to keep track of nesting birds in the San Juan National Forest near Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
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