The Lazy Woman’s Guide to Nature Photography…
I haven’t seen anything interesting going on out my window for weeks, so it was fun to see this hawk just sitting on a branch (slightly obstructed, but he didn’t listen to my request to “move over”). I can’t tell for sure, but we usually see red-tailed hawks around the pond. Not especially great photos, but this fits with my previous post below about cameras. Here is a photo taken with my new 3x zoom Canon, fully zoomed in:
And here is a photo taken with my Lumix fully zoomed in 48x:
FYI: These aren’t cropped or anything — straight out of the camera(s). I did save them at a lower resolution so they don’t take so much space on my blog and take so long to come up.
ADDITIONAL NOTE & PHOTO:
The hawk did hear me! He moved to a better branch, but now he’s in silhouette form. But I love how you can see the point of his beak and the talon. I think he must be hunting for the mice and voles to appear out of our dwindling snow cover. The background is the frozen pond.
Sue
That’s a great photo! Is it a red tailed hawk?
It is a red-tailed hawk. I wasn’t sure until I took the second set of pictures, and in one of the pictures the sun catches just enough of his tail to identify him.
gorgeous pics!!! we sometimes see those red tailed hawks hunting around here as well. thanks for sharing.