Red-Shouldered Hawk Close-up

One day, toward the very end of 2020, I went to Brazos Bend State Park outside Houston, Texas. It's a favorite place of mine to go photographing birds, bec...
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One day, toward the very end of 2020, I went to Brazos Bend State Park outside Houston, Texas. It's a favorite place of mine to go photographing birds, because every time I go I see something different, like this red-shouldered hawk I saw in a tree on the shore of Elm Lake. Obviously it didn't perceive me as too much of a threat because a couple of times it flew a little closer, until at one point it flew to a tree right next to an observation deck nearby. Walking onto the observation deck put me within twenty feet of the bird. The best part? The angle of the sun together with the bird's position in the tree meant that no one else on the deck knew he was there and I had him all to myself. I debated pointing him out, until I decided that too many people staring at him might scare him off.
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