Red-tailed hawk babies

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Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in the Don Edwards WIldlife Refuge, San Francisco Bay, October 2023
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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), 21st August 2024
es: Busardo Colirrojo, fr: Buse à Queue Rousse
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 @ 707mm, 70% crop, 1/400s, f/9, ISO 160
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Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in the Don Edwards WIldlife Refuge, San Francisco Bay, October 2023
#birdphotography #hawk #redtailed #redtailedhawk #DonEdwards #naturephotography #naturebeauty #Nikon #Z9 #bird #birds #birdwatching #birding #nature #DonEdwards

Crow attack! (The crows at this park are vicious lol, I think this is one of the same ones mobbing those bald eagles a few weeks ago)

Ruling the Air

I saw a purple martin a little bit ago, while sitting outside with my wife and Charlie. I've been wanting to photograph one of those, but I didn't have my camera. The bird flew into a tree right in front of me. What is worse is that a falcon or small hawk followed the purple martin into the tree, snatched it, and flew away.

Here’s an image of a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) soaring overhead, surveying the backyard birds a couple of years ago. Cleverly, it blended in among the vultures, using their presence as cover. Not long before I captured this photograph, I found a small puff of feathers in the yard—perhaps a sign of the hawk’s stealthy hunt.

Check out breathtaking photos of magnificent birds of prey, visit my photo gallery here:

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Juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in the Don Edwards WIldlife Refuge, San Francisco Bay, October 2023
#birdphotography #hawk #redtailed #redtailedhawk #DonEdwards #naturephotography #naturebeauty #Nikon #Z9 #bird #birds #birdwatching #birding #nature #DonEdwards

Cute juvenile red-tailed hawk

A fun stream commission I got from https://www.furaffinity.net/user/felisrandomis! A good idea of what I'd look like if I was just a bird XD 

When a Red-tailed Hawk perched in a nearby pine tree for a few weeks the Cooper’s Hawks that were there disappeared. Once the RtH moved on the CHs returned & have been building a nest in the tree. Here’s my Perpetual Journal art of the RtH & Cedar Waxwings from ‘23.

In my latest blog post I’ve continued my blog mini-series entitled All About Birds. Here’s Part 2 in that series, featuring my art & natural history info:

https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/all-about-birds-part-2

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