Today was overcast: not a good day for pictures. But today was the day that one of Waban’s resident red-tailed hawks decided to perch low in a bare tree outside the neighborhood Starbucks–right in the middle of Waban Square, in other words, with its constant stream of cars and people on their way to enjoy Sunday brunch or lattes with their human compatriots. Apparently any day is a good day to perch wherever you want if you’re an impressive-looking red-tail. Who, after all, is going to tell you to move?
Had I seen this red-tailed hawk yesterday, when the skies were blue and I was carrying my larger camera, who knows what sort of image I might have shot. Instead, the only sort of raptor I took pictures of yesterday stayed very, very still while starlings made themselves at home on his outstretched wings.
Click here for several more images of today’s Waban red-tail. Enjoy!
Jan 24, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Wow. He is impressive. Love the starlings on the eagle statue, too!
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Jan 25, 2010 at 5:42 am
I like his quizzical look.
I’ve seen a couple of raptors by the side of the road while driving past them, here in the UK. Their sense of gravitas never fails to evoke a stillness and wonder in me.
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Jan 26, 2010 at 9:18 am
That is a very impressive photo!
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Jan 26, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Red-tails are the most common roadside hawk here in the Eastern U.S. But I’ve never seen one perched so LOW as this one, only a few yards above the sidewalk where we stood watching him. I think that explains the quizzical look: he’d probably never posed for such an “extreme closeup” before!
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