Most of my Kite photography predates this blog, and this morning I had no real intention of making images if Kites, but I heard the courtship calls and moved to investigate. The result was that I got to watch one of the more impressive displays of courtship I've seen that culminated in this long tumbling dive with talons locked. A northern flicker fluffs em up.

I haven't found the bobcat again, yet. I ordered a couple used books to learn about bobcats and tracking them . Meanwhile, I collected this hodgepodge of images at Brushy Peak this evening.
This lizard is about to get dinner.
Cooper's hawk in a bloomin cherry tree
Red-winged blackbird defending his territory

I was out for a jog yesterday evening looking for some spring photo project ideas when I found myself between a couple coyotes and a bobcat. My presence quickly diffused anything that might have been going on, but I enjoyed the chance to watch them for a few minutes. I returned before dawn this morning hoping maybe the bobcat would still be around. I arrived to find the bobcat treed by coyotes. The coyotes took off before I could get any frames of them, but I stuck around for a little bit to get these images of the bobcat before I moved on so it could come down.