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Cooper’s Hawk at an Oasis
A Coopers Hawk perches on a Desert Fan Palm trunk in Murray Canyon near Palm Springs. The Coachella Valley (home to present-day Palm Springs) used to be half-covered by Lake Cahuilla, then fed by the Colorado river. After the river changed course in the 1500s, the lake dried up and the Cahuilla people were sustained…
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Cooper’s Hawk Among the Palms
Regular followers of my posts might recall that I love photographing raptors in the rain (others, take note!). I don’t think I ever expected to do that in the middle of the desert, but here’s a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk perching on a Desert Fan Palm trunk near Palm Springs while a light rain falls.