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Meal With a View
I’ve always said the quality of restaurants’ food falls as the views improve. This Red-Tailed Hawk might agree as its gopher meal at Café de los Reyes is marred by the inclusion of intestines. Red-Tailed Hawks are somewhat picky eaters, carefully discarding the digestive tract even as they gobble up the rest of the animal.…
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Dine and Dash
After polishing off a gopher, a Red-Tailed Hawk flies to a higher perch. Note the bulging crop. The hawk will store its meal in the crop temporarily while it continues to soften, and then gradually consume its meal over the course of the day.
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Rainy Hawk Anniversary
Happy one year anniversary of finding an epically soaked Red-Tailed Hawk to all who celebrate. A small but very select group, no doubt.
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Red-Tailed Hawk Vista III
I’m a firm believer that there’s no landscape that can’t be improved by the addition of a California Quail. In the winter, the quail of Point Reyes abandon their high perches to the wintering hawks. Red-Tailed Hawks make an acceptable substitute for quail while the quail are laying low. This Red-Tailed Hawk was giving a…
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Point Reyes With Daniel Dietrich
Shortly after I first started doing photography in Point Reyes, I booked a tour with Daniel Dietrich of Point Reyes Safaris. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot about how to find and photograph predators while minimizing the stress and impact human interactions can create for wild animals. I followed up that…
