Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 18, 2012. Not as sexy as a Red Shouldered Hawk, the gigantic and native Band-Tailed Pigeon was easily 3 times the size of our more commonly seen Mourning Doves. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, November 18, 2012. Three of these monster pigeons were hanging out on the upper branches of the Eucalyptus tree, where I documented the Red Shouldered Hawk a week earlier.
