Osprey pair in Seattle that returns to this nesting platform each year, under the flight path (but not so close to the airport that their nest is destroyed by officials):
Local raccoon mama trying to feed herself during baby season. A few weeks later, I saw her with three growing kits:
Pigeon on a railroad track in Seattle. The pigeons sometimes ride the grain cars, or scour for grain in the tracks once the trains move through:
One of the wild parrots of San Francisco, taking charge of a traffic light (Red-masked Parakeets):
Bald Eagle on a favorite perch in our Seattle neighborhood:
A gull chick blending in with the industrial roof that serves as a city nest. This was a small group of Glaucous-winged gulls raising their chicks in downtown Seattle:
A Great Egret near Sacramento, taking advantage of protected wetlands habitat near the city, ag and industry:
City crows playing on an anemometer (wind measure):
A Snowy Owl sheltering near a house chimney in the Ballard area of Seattle during an “irruption” year — when the Snowies travel farther south to cities like Seattle:
There are actually wild animals in this shot, but I went wide to show the scene. Cormorants and seals haul out in this part of Tacoma in Washington. The contrasts in images like this are always kind of disturbing, of wildlife eking out an existence the midst of industry and pollution:
A European Starling taking food to her three babies, nesting in the corrugated siding of this overpass:
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