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Red Tailed Brunch
I caught this Red Tailed Hawk getting a bit of brunch. It had come down off of a utility pole, went behind a barbed wire fence covered with brush then reappeared. I got off three shots before it was too far away. It had a snake.
In this pic, if you look very closely at the hip of the bird just above its talon, you can see the snake bite the hawk.
The snake apparently kept biting the hawk because after this frame the hawk landed in the middle of a large field, then immediately took off again, but this time it had a field mouse and let the snake go. It flew on to another utility pole to eat. I didn't disturb it any more.
I also redid this one from last week. I didn't like the way it turned out in the face area. Here it is reprocessed and a bit sharper.
And this last one is new. It is from the same series as the above shot, but it has a vertical orientation.
Anyhow, enjoy.
In this pic, if you look very closely at the hip of the bird just above its talon, you can see the snake bite the hawk.
The snake apparently kept biting the hawk because after this frame the hawk landed in the middle of a large field, then immediately took off again, but this time it had a field mouse and let the snake go. It flew on to another utility pole to eat. I didn't disturb it any more.
I also redid this one from last week. I didn't like the way it turned out in the face area. Here it is reprocessed and a bit sharper.
And this last one is new. It is from the same series as the above shot, but it has a vertical orientation.
Anyhow, enjoy.
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-joel
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Thanks Jen:D
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I'll go back to the RAW but I think this is pretty much all she wrote. The hawk was pretty far away but I will see. Thanks for the comment.:D
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Well alrighty then, since you are not grading, here it is at at a 98% crop.
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Thanks Glenn. I wish the face was a bit more in focus, but it did hold up pretty well with such a large crop.
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Not sure. It depends on if those talons dug into the body.
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And the hawk was lucky that this wasn't a rattler. :eek1
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-joel
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