Once in a great while fortune smiles on a photographer, as it did today when he came upon one of the trio of young Prince Street Cooper’s Hawks sooner after the critter had caught caught another bird and was sitting down for lunch. First, he plucked his prey of feathers, stopping as the photographer sidled up to shooting range.
3 July 2010, 600mm, 1/200 sec, f5.6
Then, his lunch defeathered, the young hawk got down to business, his two siblings squawking in protest from a pair of nearby trees, upset that no sharing was happening.
3 July 2010, 600mm, w/500 sec, f5.6
