Thankful For Peripheral Vision
There's a story here. One of the values of visiting the same location very often is that the mind -- the subconscious perhaps -- makes a map of sorts. When one sees something which is new to the area, out of place, disjointed, the mind notices.
Walking through the upper woods, mostly watching the tree tops for the Great Horned Owl, my peripheral vision noted something out of place...at a distance. I did a bit of a double take, looked through the lens, and realized I was seeing a Red-Tail sitting on a log. I shot some frames; the motor drive sound spooked it, and I kept shooting as it lifted off. I was SO fortunate.
This is, I'm reliably told, a juvenile Krider's (pale morph) Red-Tailed Hawk.
You can see the hawk bump on the log which peripheral vision noticed in the distance, in the top comment box photo below.
Thankful For Peripheral Vision
There's a story here. One of the values of visiting the same location very often is that the mind -- the subconscious perhaps -- makes a map of sorts. When one sees something which is new to the area, out of place, disjointed, the mind notices.
Walking through the upper woods, mostly watching the tree tops for the Great Horned Owl, my peripheral vision noted something out of place...at a distance. I did a bit of a double take, looked through the lens, and realized I was seeing a Red-Tail sitting on a log. I shot some frames; the motor drive sound spooked it, and I kept shooting as it lifted off. I was SO fortunate.
This is, I'm reliably told, a juvenile Krider's (pale morph) Red-Tailed Hawk.
You can see the hawk bump on the log which peripheral vision noticed in the distance, in the top comment box photo below.