The Daily Bucket. Red-shouldered Hawk, video and extracted stills. Open thread.

An extracted still from the video I took.

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.  12:08 p.m.

I was sitting in my living room, reading, and kept hearing a Red-shouldered Hawk calling, and it seemed to be pretty darn close.  I got up, grabbed the camera, and went down my stairs.  It was right across the street in the top of a tree, and was proclaiming territory.

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Here is a sequence of extracted stills.  I’ve done the best I could with post-processing; I was shooting with a south-facing view, and it being noon I had the camera almost straight into the sun, or would have if there had been any sun to see.  Just the heavy grey overcast.

This is an open thread.  What’s up in your nature world?