Today’s photo is one of the Red-tailed Hawks that make a home in St. Louis’ Carondelet Park. This is indeed, a wild bird. Of course Sarah was with me on a Sunday when we arrived here looking to photograph some of the Crossbills that visited us this year. While keeping my eyes peeled on the hemlocks for the Crossbills, I heard Sarah whisper, “Do yourself a favor and slowly look up”. I did and found this hawk perched ~15″ from me! Even once it discovered I was there it did not flush immediately but stayed and looked around a while.
Oh yeah, the MO chapter of The Nature Conservancy has prepared a slide show containing some of my bird photographs along with some pathetic creature. Please feel free to have a look by clicking: Missouri Birds: Images From Bill Duncan
“Happy Birds!”
Technical details: Canon EOS 7D camera, EF500mm f/4.5L USM lens, ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/320 sec
“It is delightful to observe the assembling of these feathered people from the woods and reedy isles; herons white as wave tops, or blue as the sky, winnowing the warm air on wide quite wing; pelicans coming with baskets to fill, and the multitude of smaller sailers of the air, swift as swallows, gracefully taking their places at Nature’s family table for their daily bread. Happy birds!”
-John Muir-
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 