It’s a Red tail taking off from his perch. We had 1.5 inches of rain in the past day. The Buffalo River came up 7-8 feet at Ponca overnight and it is now very windy and cold:
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boston Mountains, cold and much rain, hawk, parthenon, red-tail, windy on January 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
It’s a Red tail taking off from his perch. We had 1.5 inches of rain in the past day. The Buffalo River came up 7-8 feet at Ponca overnight and it is now very windy and cold:
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, Boston Mountains, hawk, hawks, Newton County, red-tail, warmimg on November 20, 2014| 1 Comment »
Today was an exceptional day. It was 21F at dawn and the temperature rose into the lower 60s by 2 PM today. The hawks were warming in trees and on utility poles this morning. I got an interesting sequence of a juvenile Red Tail hawk launching this morning; this whole sequence takes paces in 0.7 seconds: used a Canon 7D and a Canon EF 300L IS f/2.8 with a 1.4x TC by Canon:
Posted in Weather, Wild Birds, tagged 2014, early September, Harlan Red-tail, hawk, parthenon arkansas, red tail hawk, red-tail, Reed, tail on September 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a rainy and cool day; over an inch of rain and 66F almost all day. That was so nice for a change !! It cleared last evening about 5 PM, and I spotted a Red-tail Hawk in one of the trees in the yard; got close enough to get a few photos too. No red tail visible. This hawk is as “high-color” as any I have ever seen; maybe a juvenile ? I don’t this a Harlan Red-tail. I used my Canon 1DS Mark III with a Canon EF 400L DO IS f/4.0 lens:
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged Arkansas, County, hawk, Newton, parthenon, red-tail, redtail, vole on February 10, 2014| 2 Comments »
Soaring quietly from a high tree branch, this Red Tail Hawk missed a vole in the ice (taken with a Canon 5D MK II with a Canon 400mm Lens):
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged after vole, Arkansas, hawk, murray, nature, outdoors, photography, red-tail on February 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
This beautiful hawk was hunting from a 150 year old red oak tree in my back yard. They are, of course, more common than either Red Shoulder or Sharp Shinned hawks. I got about 55 shots of him/her going after a vole (he/she was not successful) during the afternoon on February 15th, 2013. Here is a selection using a Canon full-frame 5D-MK2 and Canon 600mm f/4 L IS Lens (Click to enlarge):