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A juvenile Cooper's hawk that is sitting on a large tree branch. This behavior was the topic of a small bit of conversation. The hawk is not on a nest and has fledged (can fly). The expectation is that the bird would stand/perch.

If you know why a bird (or hawk in particular may do this) please let me know!

The photo is blurry because I didn't want to get close enough to disturb the bird. This is one of our young red-tailed hawks on a fence across the street. The "teenage" birds often hunt from low branches and fences while they're learning. Sometimes they sit in our crabapple tree, waiting for a chipmunk to come out of its burrow. The "teenagers" aren't as wary of humans as the older birds are, so we often get a close look at them.

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Watcher of the Woods

Here’s a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) I spotted some time ago while Charlie and I were out walking. I captured the image from quite a distance using my walkaround setup—a Canon 6D Mark II paired with a 100–400mm lens and a 1.4x extender, giving me an effective focal length of 560mm. The hawk was likely 100 meters away, maybe more, but even at that range, its presence was unmistakable.

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