Red-tailed Hawk – A Twisting Take-off After Prey

The sturdy, broad-winged buteos tend to be large raptors with correspondingly slower movements than most smaller birds. Most of the time when I’m watching them they’re hunting from an elevated perch or soaring overhead and in neither situation do they typically demonstrate much quickness or agility. But they can put on quite the show when they need to. [...]

Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey

This sequence is from the summer of 2010 in southwest Montana. The adult male was kept busy hunting and delivering voles to his family of two chicks and the female on the nest. [...]