The majority of these were taken within walking distance of our house on one of our daily walks.

Red-tailed Hawk

These are two, not so typical, Red-tailed hawks. I believe this could be a pair I've taken many photos of, although the one on the left, a "dark morph" was not in its usual post. I think it hangs out, or used to anyway, in the same place as the one on the right. Here is a photo that may be the same two birds back in July 2020. This photo was obviously taken in much different lighting (golden hues near sunset), but the location is the same as the one on the right above. This is also high on my list of favorites.

The photos below were also taken in the same location a month before the one above. The last photo in this set was taken about one hour later than the first set, again seeing the effect of the golden light at sunset. This makes me think this is a juvenile dark morph and the other two (same as those above?) are the parents.

These next two were taken in October 2020 shortly before sunset. I particularly like the one on the right because of the dark background that is in shadow with the sun on the hawk. The other is the first in this collection that distinctly shows the namesake red tail.

I think I'll stop with the next two images. This hawk has been a regular recently along the UCSC bike path. It sits on fence posts along the path and lets you get amazingly close.