Bird Watching: Red shouldered hawk, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Oh, I'm sure. I wasn't happy the first time I saw a hawk on my fence. I came to DG to ID it and figure out how to get rid of it but was politely reminded that it was not actually a bad thing, just nature. Ever since then I've become really interested in them and actually enjoy seeing one now! I have Sharp-shinned and Cooper's in the winter. I would love to get a pic of one of the big Red-tailed hawks that sit on the light poles around the town tho!

While I was volunteering at an Earth Day event at a park there was a booth next to ours with raptors. They were beautiful! Here's a Red-tailed that had to leave early because it got scared and when it tried to fly off it tore a previous wound open.