Showing posts with label raptor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raptor. Show all posts

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Spring Watch Of The Cooper's Hawk ...

 

“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”

            ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                 ~ 1803 ~ 1882

Basking in the evening sun, a Cooper’s Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the spring landscape in search of prey as sunset beckons in early April at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Morning Watch ...

 “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

             ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

             ~ 1803 ~ 1882

Regal Red-Tailed Hawk peers from a high perch, gazing over the winter landscape in search of prey against a brilliant blue sky in the sunshine of a mid-February morning at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

This bird of prey is the most common hawk in North America.

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Red-Tailed & Autumn Prey ...

“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”

  ~ Alison Lurie

~Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist

             ~ 1926 ~ 2020

I love nature, but it can be cruel, such as in seeing this red-tailed hawk and its prey – a squirrel – on a mid-November evening at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I was lucky enough to capture several shots of the hawk as it guarded its prey – though I felt so sorry for the squirrel!


 

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Red-Tailed And Prey ...

“Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.”

      ~ Alison Lurie

~Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist

        ~ born 1926 

I love nature, but it can be cruel, such as in seeing this red-tailed hawk and its prey – a squirrel – on an early September evening in the waning summer at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I was lucky enough to capture several shots of the hawk as it had its supper – though I felt so sorry for the squirrel! This was the last photo I snapped, the only one where the hawk looked up and straight at me, as if to say don’t come near my prey!