We have been having a great raptor season already this year. They all started showing up in my area about two weeks ago. In one morning last week I captured hundreds of frames of two cooperative Kestrels, a close shot of a Columbarius Merlin, an unbelievable close encounter with a juvenile Ferruginous hawk, a handfull of Red-tailed hawks, a bunch of Harriers, two Golden eagles fighting over a coot, a Peregrine falcon, a Prairie falcon and this beautiful immature Red-shouldered hawk. Not to mention the Kingbirds, Bluebirds, Shrikes, Larks and the two types of Phoebes we get. I shot a 32 gig card by 9:30am!
This hawk has been hanging around the same small area for a few weeks and every day that I see him I slowly work my truck closer and closer until he now is pretty calm up to a distance of about 50 feet.
1DX---840mm---f6.3---ss1/3200---ISO 1000---HH from truck @ 7:45am---40% crop
Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it.
David