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Even though banding is harmless and the trained ornithologists gather valuable data to support species, this feisty Black-headed Grosbeak registers his strong objections with a bite. (In a few seconds he will be released.) At Bear Divide Vista Picnic Site, a spring migration hotspot where, each dawn, thousands of birds fly through a saddle 2800 feet above sea level in the Transverse Range. Birders and bird banders gather to watch, study and measure. beardividebanding.com/
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My gateway to bird photography: in 2021 a pair of Cooper’s Hawks built a nest in the yard and raised a chick, which rapidly morphed from a cute ball of cottony fluff into a skillful apex predator. Here he is somewhere in-between. Nicknamed “Anderson Cooper’s Hawk” (parents: Sadie Hawkins and Agent Cooper) quickly grew indifferent to the human who regularly pointed a 2013-era camera at him. #hawk #CoopersHawk #GatewayBird #photography #birds #birders #BirdWatching #BirdWatchers #California #LosAngeles #BirdPhoto #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdADay #DailyBird #BirdOfTheDay #LARiver #LosAngelesRiver #Opus1000 #BirdsOfMastodon #cute #NaturePhotos #LAWildlife