It's probably my own schedule and radius these days that has cut down on the raptor sightings, but whatever the reason it was thrilling to see this red-shouldered hawk in Bluffs Park. (And all the more reason that the Malibu City Council's lust to turn this last remaining bit of undeveloped bluffs in Malibu into soccer fields is a short-sighted, dunderheaded, catastrophic boondoggle.)

(imho.)