Two beautiful Red-shouldered Hawks took turns flying directly overhead – often just a few feet above our heads.
Back and forth over the boardwalk, collecting Cypress branches to line their large nest, right where the visitors can view the action.
Definitely a Red-shouldered Hawk this time ☺️
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Oh, what a handsome bird! And your photographs are stunning!
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It certainly is – loved seeing it so close! Thank you, Ann!
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Nice shots 😁😁. They have been behind my house ‘screaming’ but keeping behind the trees. Glad you could catch them 👍👍
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This pair was very accommodating, Ted. They’ve been doing a lot of screeching here, too!
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Wow you really were very close to hawks that day. They are so beautiful.
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Thanks, Lukasz! I wish you’d seen them this close, too, but it was fantastic birding with you guys here, and at Corkscrew!
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Wonderful to see these red-shouldered hawks up so close, BJ. It’s not often we get such a nice close look. Great photos. Happy new year to you!
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Happy new year to you, too, Jet! They were so close flying overhead, that my zoom lens was actually too long to capture any flight shots! ☺️
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What an amazing process you were able to witness so close up! Photos are so beautiful and clear!
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I’m so glad you got to see them vicariously through photos.🤗. Can’t wait to go birding with you two again!
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Nest-building season!
Wonderful photographs. They are so beautiful.
Great way to start the New Year!
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Yes, it sure is, Wally! We are so lucky to be right near this place. Less than 10 minutes away.☀️🌴
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Beautiful bird!
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It sure is! Hope we can watch them raise chicks again in that nest.
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Beautiful captures BJ ! Happy New Year my friend 🙂
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Happiest and healthiest of years ahead to you too, AB!!
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Great shots of the Red-shouldered Hawks, Carol. Happy New Year to you and your family. 🙂
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Thank you! Wishing you a wondrous new year full of discoveries in your new home, HJ!☀️
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Wow, what lovely photos and a great sighting of such beautiful raptors.
Wishing you the very best for 2023.
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Thank you, Carol! Wishing you a healthy and happy year ahead, too. May you continue to experience – and share – the natural wonders of your beautiful world~!
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Thanks so much Carol.
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Good that you could get such close views.
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Always so beautiful! Sending very best wishes for a most
Happy New Year my friend!
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I am so happy you enjoyed this! Wishing you a wonderful year of sharing inspirations with the rest of us!
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Keeping out of trouble and learning about the world. There’s much more to do.
Love your site dear friend, enjoy 2023
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Please keep sharing all the beauty~!
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Most certainly dear friend
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Excellent images of it too, BJ!!
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Thank you so much, Deborah. I keep trying to get good shots of the hawk pair flying back and forth to their nest with new Cypress branches – haven’t really succeeded yet!
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You’ll get it! 😃
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It’s wonderful to see the details in the bird’s beautiful plumage.
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The beauty of carrying such a long lens – I couldn’t get any flight shots, but close ups were pretty easy 😉
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Well done!
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