This week I have been posting a lot of photos of soaring birds that I photographed last weekend. This last batch, which includes some of my favorites, features a young hawk soaring in a number of different positions. I was fortunate that he flew almost directly overhead and the light was reasonably good.
The strength and beauty of a bird like this is hard to capture in photos, but it was really impressive to watch him effortlessly soaring on the winds.
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This reminds me of the song “Fly Like an Eagle” by the Marshall Tucker Band.
beautiful against that sky. 🙂
Thanks. I just got back from the same location and it’s gray and really cold (in the low 20’s). It was close to 60 last week when I took the shots of the hawk).