We had an Exmas visitor today. This is a Red Shouldered Hawk. They’re smaller than the Red Tailed Hawks we normally see around here, though they feed on the same things.
Unfortunately, I was standing in the street taking these pictures and a car came just as he saw some pray and swooped off the perch, so I didn’t get it. And I mean just as it happened. The car came up beside me, I stepped aside, looked up and he was swooping down after something in the neighbor’s yard. So I didn’t get the money shot, but it’s still a handsome bird.
