Showing posts with label immature Red-Tailed Hawk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immature Red-Tailed Hawk. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2011

Immature Red-Tailed Hawk

Despite being on vacation, I had to go by work for about 30 minutes this morning.  The sun was out and beginning to erase the chill of the night so I grabbed my camera before leaving home.  There is an eco research area near where I work that is part of the Museum of Natural Science and I often see several hawks flying over the fields looking for food.

This morning I had the opportunity for close observation of form and flight.  On several previous visits and again today, when I walk the hawk flies overhead watching.  Little field mice scurried through the grasses as I walked by.   I kept expecting the hawk to swoop down and eventually it did.  Mouse for breakfast.