During the height of the Hot/Rainy Season most of the birds seemed to disappear. I haven't mentioned vultures or raptor tornadoes because they simply weren't there. No parrots, no mockingbirds. For a while (after a week of torrential downpours that raised the water table to about a foot below surface level) even the owls were nowhere to be found. Now the humidity has dropped, the temperature has dropped and the birds are back!
Including really ugly Muscovy ducks and . . .
. . .some sort of black duck, possibly female Gadwalls or maybe young Mallards and
the local neighborhood Red Shouldered Hawk . . .
. . .which I last saw sitting in a concrete faux-fountain birdbath on somebody's front lawn.
Best of all the owls are back (if they ever really left). Three different sites along my morning walking route have at last four different owls in them (total).
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