Wow! We got to watch two peregrines courting (they even did the grab talons together and spin fall down to just above the ground thing I’ve seen in documentaries before!) and then fly into a pine tree across the river and eventually mate! A third one kept swooping around them— a little smaller but adult plumage, I’m guessing another male who lost out. What an experience.
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County lifer! Continuing. Small compact goose with stubby bill, white face, black neck and breast, gray underparts, and silvery upperparts with heavy black barring.
These inchneumonoid wasps are common visitors to my porch light. The environment is lightly wooded suburban with mixed hardwood and Longleaf Pine. The first photo is a focus stack.