Robin - Hunting

Hunting

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:23:28 PM

While out and about the other day, we spotted this Red-tailed Hawk. It was hunting in a field and had just risen from the ground, to land on this fence post.

I was quite a distance away and these are the best of my shots.

Even being a couple of hundred yards away, as soon as I raised the camera, I had about 2 seconds before it was off! This seems to be happening a lot these day. Everyone seems to be extra cautious.
It had something in it's talons, but I couldn't tell what. Probably a mouse or some other small rodent.

Fish-eyed ChickensA Lovely

Comments

Andy WilsonDudley # Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:09:33 PM

So close, yet so far!

Adele BrandSittingFox # Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:59:55 PM

With all the complications over identifying buteos, it's nice to see a red-tailed hawk that does really have a red (oh, okay, orange) tail

Magnificent bird. You can really see the family resemblence between them and the European buzzard.

L2D2 # Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:18:06 PM

Beautiful birds.

RobinRobinL # Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:20:42 AM

I was quite surprised how red it's tail was. But there was no denying that. Seems like whenever people aren't sure about and ID they call it a Red-tailed!
This time it was.