Identificaciones de grinnin

Strange happenings in my neighborhood, as the prime nesting locations and "territories" are being occupied by the dominant pairs of Canada Geese. These two mating pairs of Canada Geese started threat displays and then actual fighting at nearby Governors Ponds; then flew into the adjacent Governors Village neighborhood, landing on residential roofs and LOUDLY honking and arguing among themselves until one pair was finally chased away.

The Canada Geese goslings have a much higher survival rate than the Mallard ducklings (www.inaturalist.org/observations/161130686) because the parent Geese stay much closer to their babies and watch dutifully for airborne predators and mischievous humans. This pair of Canada Geese only have four goslings.
In 2022, 15 of 16 goslings (in two family groups [of 6 and 10 goslings]) survived to being able to fly and adulthood. We don't know what happened to the one gosling that disappeared in late April, but it likely was picked off by a Red-shouldered Hawk.

I think that this goose is an offspring from a Hybrid domestic Greylag × Canada Goose (Anser anser × Branta canadensis) as one parent and a "normal" Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) as the other parent; so it is 3/4 Canada Goose and 1/4 Hybrid; OR it is some sort of leucistic-colored Canada Goose ..........
It hangs out with a flock of 7 or 8 normal-colored Canada Geese that fly out to a nocturnal roosting area (seems like an island in Folsom Lake); they appear every couple of days or so at the Governors Ponds.
Also spotted about 10 days earlier (www.inaturalist.org/observations/157458665) in the same pond area.

After hiking up and then back down Luther Creek and Fay Canyon with some Audubon people, I laid down under this nice shady Ponderosa Pine tree just a few yards from the trail for a nap; I heard lots of people talking as they walked by, but the only "soul" that knew that I was there was this Red-breasted Nuthatch.

In April 2011, Karla and I attended the 10th Annual Lesser Prairie-Chicken Festival in the small hamlet of Milnesand in southeastern New Mexico. We opted for one of the early morning guided trips to observe and photograph the male Lesser Prairie-Chickens in their courtship displays from a camo blind (www.inaturalist.org/observations/199869016 and www.inaturalist.org/observations/199870586).
While doing so, this Mockingbird interrupted the "show" by landing on top of one of the camo blinds, and started singing for his "own show" for about 30 seconds, until the blind occupants scared him away.

While getting ready to take some sunset photos from the Vista del Lago Hill in southeastern Folsom, CA,
I spotted this Mockingbird perched on a post next to a vacant lot on Serpa Drive. This Mockingbird kinda looks like it has "eyebrows" ??
This lot is one of the few view lots on the West side of this street still vacant 17 years later.