A bigger zoom would have been nice :)

Saturday morning while I was making breakfast, I heard a racket outside. It was lots of screeching, I mean A LOT of screeching. I knew there was a Hawk out in the yard (something I have been waiting for here, for a long time) I ran out onto the back porch to look around the yard and saw several up in the sky flying around. I counted 4!! I was so excited I ran back in the house to grab a camera to take some pix of the group flying around. When I ran back out onto the porch, just as I was opening the screen door to step out on to the deck, one flew right over the roof of the porch and over me landing up on one of my maples. As soon as it landed it turned and looked back right at me. ( you will see this in the second picture, that was actually my first shot)

This made FIVE red tails all circling the skies over my house at the same time! It was something to see !!




f/8
1/500 sec.
ISO-200
WB-5200k
Tiffen UV filter
300mm
Freehand

f/8

1/500 sec.

ISO-125

WB-5200k (sun)

Tiffen UV filter

300mm

Freehand