Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk catches its lunch

I didn’t have much luck for pics today – until the very end. While waiting for new tires to be put on my truck, I went to a nearby park, camera in hand of course. I was lucky enough to come across a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk just as it was snatching a mouse from a bush. It didn’t take but a few minutes for it to devour the whole thing. Very cool to watch.

Young Red Tail hangs on in the wind

Close up of a young Red-Tailed Hawk

The hawk checks around after pulling the mouse from the bush

My mouse

Checking to make sure no one is around to take it

Time to eat!

Pulling it apart

Stringy

Pulling it apart

Repositioning the meal

Devouring the entire back half all at once

Devouring the entire back half all at once