Black Hooded Parakeets

                            intense beak play, then

                            Black-hooded Parakeets mate

                            gently and slowly

 

Blue-crowned Parakeet

clinging to its perch

the Blue-crowned Parakeet fights

the Ides-of-March winds

Monk Parakeet

the Monk Parakeet

with a mouthful of palm fruit

on the graveyard snag

Short-tailed Hawk

twisting and turning

in their aerial spring rites

dark morph Short-tailed Hawks

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

nature's pointillists

Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers

feed from rows of holes