Resident raptor
This red-tailed hawk has been hanging around Commonwealth Lake lately - I visited there 3 times in the last week, and it made an appearance all three times. Here it is posing for its admiring audience - a good collection of photographers and cellphone wielders (sorry, but I still can't quite call someone with a cell phone a photographer; sorry if I'm offending some!). It eventually flew right at us, but it was too dark to catch the action. Oh, well, I got some decent shots from another of its visits.
Resident raptor
This red-tailed hawk has been hanging around Commonwealth Lake lately - I visited there 3 times in the last week, and it made an appearance all three times. Here it is posing for its admiring audience - a good collection of photographers and cellphone wielders (sorry, but I still can't quite call someone with a cell phone a photographer; sorry if I'm offending some!). It eventually flew right at us, but it was too dark to catch the action. Oh, well, I got some decent shots from another of its visits.