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!