Friday, December 4

Gawking at Hawks I

It's a sunny, unwindy day, temperature is soaring to about 30 today (after a frigid, windy +17 yesterday) so I took a drive E on Hwy 44 to Scenic and back, knowing that the area between Rapid City and the Badlands (another 30 miles E of Scenic, which is just a bend in the road)...is a good area to see birds of prey.


This ferruginous (?) hawk, presumably a dark-phased one, was the first raptor spotted...I had to get out and take a few steps off the road and closer to get a shot without branches across the bird's head...

So of course, after getting a couple shaky shots in, away it flew from the crazy, encroaching human.

2 comments:

  1. I've never been able to get very good photos of birds, except those at our feeders. My husband saw a hawk on our deck earlier, it left to quickly for me to see!

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  2. Yea, I know birds like that Jann, they sit still all the time there's a branch in the way!

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