another Red-tailed Hawk

[Kerry Perkins]

This one is from a local National Park area - the King Gillette Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. Late afternoon light, this is a juvenile bird, just born a few weeks ago. I love how the raptors come out of the nest with fully functional attitudes. King of the sky and I know it!

1D4, EF400mm f/5.6L
Manual mode, f/5.6@1/2500 ISO 400 WB 5100K
AI Servo autofocus, hand-held no flash

[Michael Gerald-Yamasaki]

Kerry,

Greetings. I can almost hear the call ... I like the wing position, if only the light was just a bit further back over your shoulder... TFS.

Cheers,

-Michael-

[Roy Priest]

Kerry, love the open mouth and wing position. This is an adult bird, notice the red tail and dark eyes.

[Bob Miller]

Kerry....This is indeed a fine image of a hawk! I am loving the pose and the afternoon light. I wish there were more clouds in the sky but we can always have everything we want!.

[PhilCook]

Lovely wing position and love wide beak vocalizing, looks to me like the light is very good in the eye , great in flight shot, bit is there a slight magenta cast to it....may be just my monitor though

[Kerry Perkins]

Thanks for comments all! Roy, when I first read your post I thought "wait a minute, I saw this one come out of the nest..." However, you are right about the markings and when I went back to the series I remembered that there were two birds flying around this tree and I must have gotten switched up! I will have to go back and find the juvi as it was really pretty too.