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I have a new sport: hawk-stalking...
Jul. 23rd, 2009 09:05 pmYeah, long time, no post. Mostly because I'm lazy. I actually have a bunch of pics I've been meaning to share, but keep not getting around to posting them. But today's batch is too exciting not to; plus I wanted to play with the pics as soon as I got home, to evaluate the performance of my new digital camera.
The first set of pics is a few I took on Monday, of a robin who industriously if precariously built her nest right outside my office windows.
I believe that if you click on any of the pics, you'll go to my Flickr page, and then, you can click on the "All Sizes" option above the photo, to see the full-size versions. All of these have a larger version uploaded, although I did reduce all of them by 1/4 of the size they came out of my camera.
( Pics below... )
But, on to the main show...
We've had red-tailed hawks living at Harvard for years now. I think they live on the north edge of the Yard, whereas my office is on the southern edge. But sometimes they do fly down to where we can see them. Occasionally one will come and sit on the roof of the big building next door to me, or in the big tree in the courtyard next to my building, and call, and I can hear them inside. I've watched them circling sometimes, too.
Last week, a juvenile showed up on a low branch of a pine tree as I was walking to the bus in the evening. I didn't have my camera on me that day -- of course, since that juvenile was then joined by a second, and both of them cried until their parents showed up circling overhead. 9_9
That made me vow to always bring my camera, in hopes of catching them again. I just got a new, better camera, and I hoped to get some good shots. Then I realized that I couldn't really wait until they decided to both come down to my part of campus, and alert me to their presence. If I wanted pics of the hawks, I would have to actively go hawk-stalking...
( More hawk pics below... )
The first set of pics is a few I took on Monday, of a robin who industriously if precariously built her nest right outside my office windows.
I believe that if you click on any of the pics, you'll go to my Flickr page, and then, you can click on the "All Sizes" option above the photo, to see the full-size versions. All of these have a larger version uploaded, although I did reduce all of them by 1/4 of the size they came out of my camera.
( Pics below... )
But, on to the main show...
We've had red-tailed hawks living at Harvard for years now. I think they live on the north edge of the Yard, whereas my office is on the southern edge. But sometimes they do fly down to where we can see them. Occasionally one will come and sit on the roof of the big building next door to me, or in the big tree in the courtyard next to my building, and call, and I can hear them inside. I've watched them circling sometimes, too.
Last week, a juvenile showed up on a low branch of a pine tree as I was walking to the bus in the evening. I didn't have my camera on me that day -- of course, since that juvenile was then joined by a second, and both of them cried until their parents showed up circling overhead. 9_9
That made me vow to always bring my camera, in hopes of catching them again. I just got a new, better camera, and I hoped to get some good shots. Then I realized that I couldn't really wait until they decided to both come down to my part of campus, and alert me to their presence. If I wanted pics of the hawks, I would have to actively go hawk-stalking...
( More hawk pics below... )
