Patrolling the Heavens
by terranovabay
A Red-shouldered Hawk rides the thermals making long graceful circles over the Stick Marsh.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, Red-shouldered Hawk, Stick Marsh
Tag: Red-shouldered Hawk
Jumping Off Point
by terranovabay
Multiple exposures of a Red-shouldered Hawk launching into the air from the old dead tree along Oslo Road in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Red-shouldered Hawk
PINWR Sunday: Raptor Silhouette
by terranovabay
A Red-shouldered Hawk is silhouetted against an orange sunrise at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. From the OspreyWatch project.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, PINWR, Red-shouldered Hawk
Three Lakes WMA – Part 2 of 2
by terranovabay
Moving on with Part 2 of the visit to Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Continuing on through the prairie The slough Green Heron Red-shouldered Hawk Limpkin Turkey Vulture warming in the Sun Dragonfly in an obelisking pose to reduce its surface area in relation to the Sun in an attempt to cool off. Turkey Vulture in flight An American Alligator in the slough A large water control device between the lakes is a natural draw. Juvenile alligator Cypress dome. From […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA
Three Lakes WMA – Part 1 of 2
by terranovabay
Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area ( Three Lakes WMA) in Central Florida is a former ranch, the eponymous Three Lakes Ranch, comprising 63,000-acres that today protects one of the largest extant Florida dry prairie ecosystems. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Three Lakes WMA is “a mosaic of dry and wet prairie, ephemeral depression ponds and marshes, mesic (moist) flat woods, hammocks, and cypress ponds and sloughs. Diversity, both in plant and animal life, distinguishes Florida’s dry […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, Alligator mississippiensis, American Alligator, Aramus guarauna, Buteo lineatus, Butorides virescens, Cathartes aura, Cypress Dome, Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, Elanoides forficatus, Eudocimus albus, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC, Green Heron, Limpkin, Mimus polyglottos, Northern Mockingbird, Odocoileus virginianus, Pine Flatwood, Prairie, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-winged Blackbird, Romalea microptera, Swallow-tailed Kite, Three Lakes, Three Lakes Ranch, Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Turkey Vulture, White Ibis, White-tailed Deer, WMA
Hunting At Dawn
by terranovabay
A Red-shouldered Hawk searches for breakfast in the first light of dawn. The photos were taken sitting inside a car using it as a blind during a surprise early morning encounter along a narrow country lane. The limitations of using a car for a blind is evident in the last photo of the hawk about to fly away. The cab of the car blocked the view of the hawk as it flew away off the power line. Buteo lineatus in […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, Florida, Indian River County, Red-shouldered Hawk
Red Shoulders
by terranovabay
The red shoulders of a Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) catch the early morning Sun as this common Florida raptor launches off its perch. The same Red-shouldered Hawk as in the image above perched in the bright, early morning light. Both images were taken at the Orlando Wetlands Park.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Buteo lineatus, Orlando Wetlands Park, Red-shouldered Hawk
Surprise Hawk Encounter
by terranovabay
Walking out at Treasure Hammock Ranch this afternoon I unexpectedly flushed a Red-shouldered Hawk out of a palm tree causing the hawk to circle repeatedly low overhead till I got past. Hard to see in the image, but the hawk’s beak was covered in red gore so the bird must have been interrupted while eating a meal. Once I got past the tree the hawk circled around and went back into the palm tree, most likely to finish the meal.
Categories: Nature • Tags: Red-shouldered Hawk, Treasure Hammock Ranch
Orlando Wetlands Action Shots
by terranovabay
A selection of images from Sunday’s visit to the Orlando Wetlands Park as part of a Pelican Island Audubon Society field trip led by Steve Goff and Susan Boyd. The morning was dark and overcast during our visit so the lighting for picture taking left a lot to be desired. Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Barred Owl with a recent kill. Snowy Egret coming in for a landing. Red-shouldered Hawk carrying what could be material to build a nest with. Sandhill […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: Alligator, Barred Owl, birding, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Orlando Wetlands Park, Pelican Island Audubon Society, Red-shouldered Hawk, River Otter, Roseate Spoonbill, Sandhill Crane, Snowy Egret, wildlife photography
