Close your eyes and make a wish...and may all of your hopes and dreams for the year ahead come true. Merry Christmas. 🎄🎁🤞🌠

 

Where's the cactus?

 

A Northern Shoveler (m)

 

A Black-capped Chickadee mouthing that seed like it's a stogie.

 

One of the beauties who lives in the ravine out back.

 

This won't appeal to all but keeping with the theme of Everyone's Gotta Eat, here's a Red-tailed Hawk who decided to eat its lunch a few feet from the trail. It was remarkable to witness the efficiency and savagery with which that squirrel was consumed.

The other morning there was plenty of mourning among our backyard Mourning Dove population when they lost a comrade to the lethal talons of a Coopers Hawk.