The grass came back quickly, as you can see. Really green.
Accipiter striatus. There’s a pair of these on my dog walk route. It’s pretty tolerant - let me walk around to a couple different angles before flying down the block.
A little different from my portraits of bugs and birds, but really, the approach isn’t much different - anticipate what the thing will be doing in 2 seconds!
I shot a set of the Becker’s daughter and new son at the end of April, just getting around to posting them. You can just let Willow go [...]