Monday, October 25, 2010

Red-tailed Hawk

JUVENILE RED-TAILED HAWK (BUTEO JAMAICENSIS), CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN, GLENCOE, ILINOIS, APRIL 1, 2010

Pentax K20D
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300 at 300mm
1/125 sec. f8
ISO 400

Going through the year's earlier avian photographs yielded this "formal portrait" of a young red-tailed hawk -- a species I first thought was a juvenile bald eagle -- spotted on two occasions at the Botanic Gardens in the spring. Two other photographs from the encounters can be found here.

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