One of the skills that can be of immense value to the bird photographer (and of interest to birders of every persuasion) is the ability to predict when they might take off.
There’s no common theme here other than both birds being hawks so I guess this post is a mini-potpourri but I always think it’s interesting to compare raptor species.
This adult light morph Swainson’s Hawk was a good omen for my present camping trip.
Sometimes when I think a hawk is about to take off there’s actually something completely different and unexpected about to happen.
Birds aren’t the only itch of mine to be scratched by my addiction to bird photography.
The web of life is indeed intertwined – in this case with two of my favorite photographic subjects.
A potpourri of raptors I’ve photographed within the last two weeks in northern Utah. For varying reasons I think each image has at least some merit.
Yesterday was a banner day for Swainson’s Hawks in northern Utah. They seemed to be everywhere on fence posts, power poles, trees and in the sky.
I believe this bird to be the darkest dark morph Swainson’s Hawk I’ve ever encountered.
