These Red-shouldered Hawk chicks are 3-4 weeks old. The nest is 100' from my house and 60' up a Hickory tree.
May 2019
There's a couple vantage points thru the trees from my back deck. Feeding goes on all day but quietly, no loud begging yet. Being there at the right moment to see anything is a bit of luck.
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or not like this disaster — I was turning on the camera and getting it in place atop the ladder I use to find angles. Camera was set to manual as hawk landed with prey making this photo underexposed and so I painted it in edit. Gotta be awesome to the chicks in nest as it swoops in, wings & tail filling the tree crotch.
On landing the hawk looks around before feeding — talons holding frogs and stuff that get shredded. There was a Florida Green Watersnake it carried around once, and a squirrel carcass I saw the mate capture.
The feeding went fast, over in a few minutes...
then off more more prey...
I wanna go...
but something is missing...
Wings!
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Onward ...
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