Simply Majestic
by Peggy Franz
Title
Simply Majestic
Artist
Peggy Franz
Medium
Photograph - Photography/landscape/wildlife/hawks
Description
Capture in my yard. I am just so lucky. Look out my front door and there he is !!
So majestic! This is a Red shoulder Hawk.Whether wheeling over a swamp forest or whistling plaintively from a riverine park, a Red-shouldered Hawk is typically a sign of tall woods and water. It�s one of our most distinctively marked common hawks, with barred reddish-peachy underparts and a strongly banded tail. In flight, translucent crescents near the wingtips help to identify the species at a distance. These forest hawks hunt prey ranging from mice to frogs and snakes. They Red-shouldered Hawks return to the same nesting territory year after year. So we are blessed to see them all the time. We know their call to one another. They also mate for life.Red-shouldered Hawks often reuse nests from past years. Scientists don�t know which sex originally selects the nest site, although the male typically arrives back at the nest site first and defends the territory until the female arrives. They typically place their nests in a broad-leaved tree (occasionally in a conifer), below the forest canopy but toward the tree top, usually in the crotch of the main trunk. Nest trees are often near a pond, stream, or swamp, and can be in suburban neighborhoods or parks.
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February 2nd, 2013
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Comments (55)
Sherri Of Palm Springs
Dear Peggy just love your beautiful birds, they always so pretty...f/v Sherri
JOHN TELFER
Peggy, Fantastic capture of this beautiful looking hawk in the wilderness sitting a top the tree branches and looking around. The details in this photo are remarkable and the clarity is awesome. Love the way you have captured the colors of the front of the hawk and his facial features. Excellent photo with excellent details, voted, google, tweet and FB promoted
Rhonda Humphreys
What a great capture Peggy. Hawk can be pretty flighty with a camera around. Great shot. v/g+
Jim Cook
Great capture! Hope he hangs around for you. V
Peggy Franz replied:
There is a couple heehe and also has some babies that are growing fast :) I have a new picture today Thank you so much!!
Peggy Franz
Thank you everyone!!! It wont let me go past 30 thank you so Im just going to thank you to all :))))