Birds of Prey

Northern Barred Owl

Red-Shouldered Hawk Scoping Out Dinner

High Key Osprey Preparing for a Landing

Red-Shouldered Hawk Feather Detail

Have you ever looked closely at the beautiful patterns across the underside of a red-shouldered hawk? The barring across its flight-feathers and the patterns across its body plumage is phenomenal!

Osprey Giving a Fish a Birds-Eye View

Red-Shouldered Hawk Ruling His Sky

Red-Shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Coming in hot! I *think* this was a Broad-winged Hawk. But, if anyone can more positively identify it, please let me know in the comments! ❤️

Bald Eagle In-Flight

The Thankless Cleanup Crew

Black Vulture preparing for another important day dealing with things no human would want to take on themselves. May not be the most beautiful bird in full daylight, but they are SO very important, and graceful in flight, to boot.

Osprey on the Hunt

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Osprey Stare Down

Osprey Taking in the Warmth

Osprey Coasting

Osprey Flying Off Into the Sunset

This was taken on a recent evening where the sun and surrounding clouds took on an incredibly deep shade of red due to smoke moving across the US. The smoke is from wildfires in the western parts of the United States. The colors are not artificially saturated.

Bald Eagle