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A nice encounter with this red-tailed hawk as it flew by at close range. Photo taken from my vehicle.
I've been sighting this same hawk for a year or so. Over the past month it's been molting, leaving it with a bright red tail where its immature striped one once was. I've grown extremely fond of this beauty... can't wait to see it again once it's fully done molting.
Well, maybe one day but not just yet. This young Red-tailed Hawk is one of the birds in the Birds of Prey show at Callaway Gardens.
This story for this particular beauty is probably a common one. She was frequenting a farm going after the rodents attracted by all the grain, but the farmer was afraid for his chickens so he shot her, damaging her wing and so severely weakening it she may never be able successfully hunt again in the wild.
The instructor explained that while these hawks go after small game, the weight of a full grown chicken would simply have been way too much.
Callaway Discovery Center Amphitheater
Callaway Gardens’ Birds of Prey program is presented with the permission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Aug 2014
I don't often post an entire series but occasionally I get a set that I enjoy enough to do so. This Red Tailed Hawk and I had an hour of uninterrupted time as it posed, preened and cleaned itself. First in the park, and then on a fence of a yard that bordered the park. Finally taking off into a tree, where it sat for just a few seconds as if to say good-bye. Then flew up into the branches and out of sight. A most heart warming experience.
I went back into the summer archives and found a few shots I never got around to editing / posting. Here is one of our old friend T3 delivering a rat to Eakins Oval for one lucky fledgling.
I drove to College Station Texas today to surprise a friend for her birthday. I pulled off the highway probably five times when I saw a bird, but this was the only shot worth keeping. The kestrels are just too skittish. So frustrating!
Looking down from Hawk Hill in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this Red-Tailed Hawk was on it's way to crossing the Golden Gate, possibly as far south as Central America. This was the first warm clear day in the past week of fog that covered Hawk Hill, making the crossing impossible. A Golden Gate Raptor Observatory volunteer bird counter who was documenting the migration described the number of hawks we were seeing today as a "jail-break", possibly the busiest day she had observed in five years.
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Stretching and experimenting with those growing wings.
Stopped by the red-tailed hawk nest briefly to see how they were doing. Growing so fast now. Quality not very good on some that were extremely underexposed and tried to salvage. All are cropped quite a bit as well. Sunny that day but heavy rain and storms today so glad we made it by. Will try to check again. Sorry for so many, just saving to my album, no need to comment.
I was surprised when this Red-tail spotted me and didn't take off for the great blue yonder, but instead for another branch on the edge of the woods. While I was shooting I noticed him looking upwards at one point and he started flapping. I didn't even notice the action until I reviewed my photos and was completely astonished to find this hawk had come under attack by another Red-tail. Awesome action, but was dismayed to find the focus was not on target. Oh well...what are the chances of getting a do-over on this?