Red Shouldered Hawk

This guy was rather cooperative -- sat in a tree next to my house

long enough for me to get a long lens on the camera and squeeze off a

few shots before he flew away. This seemed the most dramatic of them.

I'd be grateful for any comments on this or any of my other photos.

 

By the way, if anyone can confirm the variety of hawk, I'd be

grateful. I suspect it's a red shouldered, but I'm not very

experienced at bird identification.

Looks a lot like a Red Shoulder to me, but could also be a Broad-Winged hawk. The Red Shoulder is getting to be a fairly rare site where you live. It is a neat photograph nevertheless.

looking for dinner?