I was slowly driving down Mid-Pines Road in Raleigh which is a popular birding spot when I noticed this red shouldered hawk perched on the fence post.
It was so still I almost thought it was a decoy lol. I pulled off to the side of the road and took several pictures. This was the best one, so I call it the perfect pose.
A friend of mine is a lucky-ducky in that he has a large number of #raptors that hang out in his neighborhood. Mostly red-tailed #hawks but in this case a juvenile Cooper's hawk hanging out in the tree across the street. This guy/gal was likely recently kicked out of the nest b/c it kept calling for its next meal with no success.
(07/27/23)
When ever the moon is visible during the day, it's a mad race to try and capture some birds in front of it. This mated paired of red-tailed hawks (male up top, female below) was extraordinarily cooperative as they posed on a weather vane and I found the right spot from which to capture the moon in the background. In the end, it was the moon that moved out of frame first, and the hawks remained in position for several minutes.
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