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For a couple of years a pair of red-tailed hawks nested in the white pines across the street from my office. Watching the chicks grow up was hilarious.

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One of the same chicks, several weeks earlier. They grow up gorgeous, but there's that fuzzy infant stage and then the awkward-teenager one...

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I was gobsmacked to discover this redtail calmly disassembling a squirrel next to a busy intersection of sidewalks near Ag Hall and Microbiology on the U of WI campus where I work. She did not seem to care a solitary bit that some human was going click near her. Note the strong "ring" bokeh characteristic of mirror lenses; hardly super-aesthetic, but for verisimilitude I didn't smear it with Gauss blur or some such. Kicked myself most of the way home when I filled up my SD card shooting at this and then missed the money shot when she picked up the remains of the carcass, spread those magnificent wings, and took off. GAAA!

reh321 · 07-29-2018, 02:46 PM

Rupert would have loved your title, but I don't think he would have been very happy with the conclusion. Oh, well, that is the "circle of life". Good shots, and condolences on running out of storage.

stewh · 07-29-2018, 04:48 PM

Good shots, red tailed hawks are beautiful...and deadly.

SSGGeezer · 07-29-2018, 06:37 PM

Pre fledge they look kind of like those cartoon vultures. My Wide winged hawk flew over today but I was watering my tomatoes so didn't get a shot today.

**fewayne** · 07-30-2018, 01:49 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by SSGGeezer

Pre fledge they look kind of like those cartoon vultures.

IK, R? One of the local power plants has a falcon nesting box which has been occupied every year for the past ten, IIRC. And watching those peregrine chicks go from fluffballs to gawky cartoons to mad-flapping crufty-looking fledglings has been just a stitch. Then one day they turn into 200-MPH Death From Above predators. Hmm. Maybe I should be watching my children a little more carefully.

Probably nothing on the livestream now, they've all flown but some of the chicks are still hanging around, hoping Mom will come back and feed them. Also very much like teenagers, that.

Wait, I'm wrong, at least as I typed this one of the chicks was visible on the Livestream cam, just snoozin' away.

MGE Peregrine Falcons - Madison Gas and Electric. - Madison, Wisconsin

SSGGeezer · 07-30-2018, 01:54 PM

Is that why he is so still? Sleeping standing up?

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07-29-2018, 02:46 PM	#2
reh321 Pentaxian Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: South Bend, IN, USA Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 23,180	Rupert would have loved your title, but I don't think he would have been very happy with the conclusion. Oh, well, that is the "circle of life". Good shots, and condolences on running out of storage.

07-29-2018, 04:48 PM	#3
stewh Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Ontario Photos: Gallery Posts: 280	Good shots, red tailed hawks are beautiful...and deadly.

07-29-2018, 06:37 PM	#4
SSGGeezer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Indiana, U.S. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 4,845	Pre fledge they look kind of like those cartoon vultures. My Wide winged hawk flew over today but I was watering my tomatoes so didn't get a shot today.

07-30-2018, 01:49 PM - 1 Like	#5
fewayne Site Supporter Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Wisconsin Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 115 Original Poster	Originally posted by SSGGeezer Pre fledge they look kind of like those cartoon vultures. IK, R? One of the local power plants has a falcon nesting box which has been occupied every year for the past ten, IIRC. And watching those peregrine chicks go from fluffballs to gawky cartoons to mad-flapping crufty-looking fledglings has been just a stitch. Then one day they turn into 200-MPH Death From Above predators. Hmm. Maybe I should be watching my children a little more carefully. Probably nothing on the livestream now, they've all flown but some of the chicks are still hanging around, hoping Mom will come back and feed them. Also very much like teenagers, that. Wait, I'm wrong, at least as I typed this one of the chicks was visible on the Livestream cam, just snoozin' away. MGE Peregrine Falcons - Madison Gas and Electric. - Madison, Wisconsin

07-30-2018, 01:54 PM	#6
SSGGeezer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Indiana, U.S. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 4,845	Is that why he is so still? Sleeping standing up?