Red-shouldered Hawk at the Bolt Hole

So, as I mentioned yesterday, there was a hawk upon the electric wires outside the Bolt Hole in the morning and it seemed quite tame. At least it allowed me to go inside and get my camera and then come back and snap some pictures of it. It stayed in one place merely looking at me as I approached closer and closer. It wasn’t until I was nearly beneath it that it flew off.


Terry and I were looking at these pictures and comparing the photos in Sibley’s and we agree that it appears to be a Red-shouldered Hawk.




The place where it was perched is directly over a dirt road that has tall grasses/weeds on the south side and thick trees (apple, fir, pine) and brush (honey suckle, rugosa rose) on the north. Immediately on the other side of the trees and brush is the lawn. There are plenty of small critters, snakes and birds for this larger predator to eat.