While in the garden, I noticed a red kite (Milvus milvus, Rotmilan,
kania ruda) diving and I reached quickly for my camera. When it reappeared, it was holding a bird in its talons, most probably a starling (Sturnus vulgaris,
Star,
szpak)
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Eastern Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), 3rd August 2024
es: Busardo Colirrojo, fr: Buse à Queue Rousse
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, Massachusetts
Agawam, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett) & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1039mm, 15% crop, 1/2000s, f/13, ISO 1000
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), 31st March 2024
es: Gavilán de Cooper, fr: Épervier de Cooper
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 40% crop, 1/640s, ISO 1600
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Marsh Harrier ♂︎ (Circus aeruginosus, Rohrweihe,
błotniak stawowy).
Sparrowhawk ♂︎ (Accipiter nisus, Sperber,
krogulec) - a #portrait
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Eastern Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), 3rd August 2024
es: Busardo Colirrojo, fr: Buse à Queue Rousse
Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, Massachusetts
Agawam, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett) & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1039mm, 20% crop, 1/2000s, f/14, ISO 1600
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), 13th September 2024
es: Gavilán de Cooper, fr: Épervier de Cooper
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 @ 800mm, 40% crop, 1/400s, f/9, ISO 160
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One of my favorite photographic experiences was spending twenty minutes with this beautiful red-tailed hawk perched in a tree along the banks of the Animas River in January 2022.
Bird of the Day — Merlin, Kansas, yesterday
Nature, red in beak and claw
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Mire Siren," showing a family group of Utahraptors becoming trapped in quicksand.
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii), 3rd October 2024
es: Gavilán de Cooper, fr: Épervier de Cooper
Village Park Lands, Ithaca, New York
Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Odǫhwęja:deˀ (Cayuga) & Susquehannock traditional territory
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 @ 800mm, 40% crop, 1/400s, f/9, ISO 250
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