I stopped at Subway (heh) for lunch on my way in to OtherJob. The particular Subway I stopped at has two blind turns as you circle the restaurant from the drive-thru microphone to the actual window where you pay and get your food.
I made the first turn and had to slam on my brakes, because there was an honest-to-God red-tailed hawk just chilling in the parking lot two feet in front of my car. I almost hit him. That close. Scrabbling for my phone ensued, but the beautiful bastard flew away just as I was pulling up the camera app…
…to join his mate on the roof of another nearby fast-food installation. Two of them.
I spent a good ten minutes chasing them around the parking lot trying to get either a) a crappy picture of both of them together or b) a good picture of one of them and failed. Nonetheless, enjoy crappy long-distance taken-from-inside-the-car-through-the-windshield iPhone pictures of two really cool birds:
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Awesome! I get excited like that, too, when I run across something unexpected like these beauties.
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me too… and I get bummed when I realize I don’t have a camera along.
Can’t afford a smartphone; we have a glorified point-and-shoot.
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Nice try.
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Got them here. A nest is in the woods outside my house. When I go walking, they get upset with me. Happens every spring. They are always beautiful and hold a little spot in my heart though.
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It’s funny that you just liked my post about the vision quest. I clicked on your name to find out more about you, and seen this post about a red-tailed hawk. I literally just came back from trying to get a photo of one!
I’ve started to call it the ‘Ghost Hawk’, because I’ve passed it twice now on my way home. Each time I have run in the house to grab my camera, drive back to where I seen it and it was gone. And, now I’ve just clicked on your blog and it’s about getting a photo of a red-tailed hawk.
Crazy…
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I love the Big Lots picture. Makes you wonder what they think of this weird world they find themselves in.
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Beautiful. It’s sad at times; we have a dead red tail on the road near our house. Unclear if shot, hit or natural. Amazing animals; it’d be cool to be one.
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Very nice!
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Those plus the peregrine falcons (and sad little kestrels) all fly around my very cement-covered city outside of Dallas. When I had a bird feeder in the back hard, they’d show up on the fence to hunt the sparrows. Always shocks me to see them just chilling near the humans, though.
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