This shot was from a year or so ago as I was driving down towards the coast. But yesterday I had the same view while out in my front yard as another of this species landed into the wind on the top branches of one of our oaks. Strong south winds allowed the bird to softly, and almost in slow motion, settle down onto the tree as I watched from directly below…Another of those ”I wish I had my camera” moments.
Gary Boyd Photography
Coffee Muses
Beautiful! I don’t see so many redtails, but there are osprey aplenty. I often see them hovering over the flats when I cross the Kemah-Seabrook bridge. They can hang for minutes – just so elegant, and deadly to whichever fish they have their eye on!
That is one of the things I love about our area in winter. Hawks are everywhere. They are on the power lines along almost every road in my area. I was sitting on the back porch the other day and one swooped down along the ground out back…He sent all of the birds on the ground fleeing. Robins in the hundreds, doves by the dozens, blackbirds of untold numbers, all flying for the trees. It looked like schools of fish in the ocean as they flew off. And the hawk just settled down on the top of a tree and kreeed a laugh.