Red-tailed Hawk keeps watch over its meal
It isn't very often these raptors let you get close. However, when there is food involved, they are far more likely to tolerate a human. Such was the case with…
Young Red-tailed Hawk keeps watch
Red-tails are about the most common hawks on the plains but they also aren't usually prone to hang around for pictures. Every now and then I come across one that…
Red-winged Blackbird bully Red-tailed Hawk
A fun little bit of action here. The Blackbirds had staked out a marshy area as their own and when the hawk decided to patrol overhead, the littler birds were…
Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk makes for a fun find
Red-tailed Hawks are quite common but not the ones of this variety. I have seen this particular one hanging out along a back-country road northeast of my home a few…
Slideshow: Red-tailed Hawk devours a mouse
A fun little slideshow of a very cool raptor enjoying a meal recently. This hawk had caught its prey in a field and then was kind enough to eat it…
Red-tailed Hawk makes off with a meal
A very fun encounter with this raptor recently. Driving down a dirt road I see this Red-tailed Hawk dive down from a pole and clearly grab something. I come to…