Lucky Photograph

Sometimes the photographer gets a really lucky shot!  I saw a large bird approaching a tree and was able to get an in-focus photo just as it landed.  When I looked at the photograph later, I saw that the bird was holding a mouse in its talons!

This White-tailed Kite just caught a mouse for dinner.

The bird book says that hawks are difficult to identify.  This bird turns out to be a White-tailed Kite which is common only along the California coast.  We are staying at El Chorro Regional Park, near San Luis Obispo, California, and are seeing a lot of different kinds of birds. 

I've posted photos of birds we've encountered on our travels here.  It's fun to photograph the birds, but there is some danger that we might become one of these.