Just out of range, this morning's floofy Red-tailed Hawk looking at me from atop some sort of pine, with a flimsy eucalyptus-type tree behind getting buffeted by the high winds...

...and an out of range profile with the flimsy tree getting motion blur in the wind...

...and one looking the other way. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Fact.

🌬️ It was 29 degrees up here this morning, with 25 mph gusts of wind that cut right through you, so I was shivering, the hawk was floofing and windblown, and the peashooter was way out of range...Zen photography! #Badpic

And today's #birding! 🤘😁

📸 Red-tailed Hawk 🪶🌿

#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors
#Yimby

In low light, your guess is as good as mine, that's either a juvenile or a female American Kestrel at dusk, and I'm leaning towards a juvenile. At least one showed up! Now to arrange a return engagement...

I should really just hang it up once the sun sets.

You'd think I'd learn that by now.😑

I don't think you can blame me for trying though, after all my kestrel-manifesting, when a new little one paid a visit last night. #badpic 🪶

Definitely not PtRK, though. IYKYK. 🦅

#BirdsOfPrey
#Raptors
#Birding

Another look at that same fat quail from Tuesday, this one more of profile though...

I failed to offer any scale other than the tight weave of my window screen, so I have to tell you that this mantis is about an inch long from eyeball to a-hole.

Juuuust a bit outside. That should be the Dread Pirate Roadrunner standing victoriously with a dead lizard hanging out of his mouth. But it's my miss-of-the-week instead.

Your ordinary male House Finch, but more importantly he's on the branch of a red push pistache tree. IYKYK. And if you don't, I'll share another tomorrow explaining why I find him significant.

Seems like a good day for one of my #photodump skeets.

An unusual melange...🙄

1) One more of that quail 🪶
2) A teeny mantis on my window screen #InsectThursday
3) The roadrunner (DPR, IYKYK) with a lizard in his mouth that I missed #badpic
4) A new male House Finch, more on him later* 🌿 #birding

A dimly lit room with a flickering candle over a table set with drinks, creating an intimate ambiance.

We cheers, you transfer. That’s how this works.

#blackdommes #findom #fincuck #finsub #ebony #badpic #ohwell #devotion #paypig #humanatm #nightcap #femdom

I only post this photo to show off and brag about my massive photographic skills. It's a western meadowlark. (Experts correct me.) It's brown and white and yellow and skittish.

Completely unedited #photo
Straight out of the camera

#badpic
#birdphotography 🪶

Completely unedited #photo

straight out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography 🪶

Phainopepla

#badpic

Completely unedited photo
Straight out of the camera

This is a ladder-backed #woodpecker jumping out of focus

#bird 🪶 #birdphotography #badpic

#WoodpeckerWednesday!

This is a completely #unedited photo

Straight out of the camera 😲

You can tell this was made by a human 📷
and not AI

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#badpic

Oh, anyway, it's a white-crowned #sparrow

This #photo is completely unedited
No photographic tricks
Straight out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#badpic

Unedited #photo
Straight out of the camera

Curve-billed thrasher

#bird #birdphotography

#badpic, primarily because it needs editing

Unedited #photo
Straight out of the camera

Phainopepla #flying away

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#badpic
#bird #birdphotography

Straight out of the camera
Completely unedited #photo

#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#badpic ... actually not that #bad
Close enough I could have fixed it
with Lightroom to create the
illusion of sharpness

Female Anna's #hummingbird

Straight out of the camera
Completely unedited

This was yesterday

Sierra Vista #Arizona
#bird #birdphotography 🪶
#badpic

It's a cactus wren,
as you probably can tell

Completely unedited #photo

Exactly how it came out of the camera

Gila #woodpecker
in my #backyard

#bird #birphotography
#badpic

Straight out of the camera
Completely unedited #photo
(except for Lightroom conversion to JPEG)

#hawk #bird #raptor #birdphotography
#badpic

Straight out of the camera

Completely unedited #photo

#bird #birdphotography
#branches
#badpic

Completely unedited #photo
straight out of the camera
(except for converting to JPEG in Lightroom)
Curve-billed thrasher
snatching a gigantic chunk
of suet

#bird #birds #birdphotography
#badpic

Completely unedited #photo
(except for converting to JPEG)
This is exactly how it came out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography
#badpic

Filed under #sparrow

Yellow-rump warbler

Completely #unedited #photo
(except for converting to JPEG, so I can post it)

This is exactly how it came out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography

#badpic

#badpic !

Completely #unedited #photo
This is straight out of the camera
(except Lightroom to convert to JPEG)

Fairly certain #none of the photo
is in focus 🤷‍♂️

#bird #birdphotography

Completely unedited #photo
(except for converting RAW to JPEG)

Go here: sierravistahomestead.com/2024/11/30/p... to find out why I post so many #bad #pics

Exactly how it came out of a camera

#bird #birdphotography
#badpic

This #photo is completely unedited

Exactly how it came out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography
#badpic

I mostly blame this one on the #camera
but I also share some culpability

Completely unedited #photo
This is exactly how it came out of the camera

#bird #birdphotography
#badpic

Completely unedited #photo
This is exactly how it came out of the camera
I filed it under "finch"
because I had to put it somewhere

#bird #birdphotography
#photography
#badpic

Completely unedited #photo

This is how it came out of the camera
Can you tell?

Very important to have every photographic setting and exposure perfect

#bird #birds #birdphotography
#badpic

I like to post photos that you can tell were made my a human and not generated by AI

Completely unedited #photo
Straight out of the camera

#badpic
#bad #bird #photo

Completely unedited photo
Straight out of the camera

#badpic
#bird

Look, I agree he is amazing, and he has more empathy, knowledge, understanding, and humanity in his left pinkie that the fucked up ‘President Elect’, but this pic just makes it look like he’s so old the entire building is going to be engulfed. #BadPic

I know it may be hard to believe
but these #photos
are completely #unedited

#badpic #badpics

The second one qualifies for #FlyDay

Curve-billed thrasher

#badpic

At least the far side of the birdbath is in focus

kind of

Completely unedited 😁