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Don Nelsen | all galleries >> Galleries >> Red-Tailed Hawk Nest in Our Yard > She's about 15 feet away, and appears to be getting to be quite accustomed to me. (Day -5)
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20-APR-2010

She's about 15 feet away, and appears to be getting to be quite accustomed to me. (Day -5)

The day before, I obliviously drove into my driveway, stopped, and was about to get out of the car, when I saw her eating a squirrel on the lawn about 12 feet away! I froze, then slumped down and hid my eyes behind the side rear-view mirror. She continued for 15 minutes, nervously looking around and then at me every 15 seconds or so. She appears to have been trying to analyze what this white car thing is that appears to have a human in it.

She then picked up the squirrel and hopped over til she was adjacent to the driver's door, about 8 feet away, where I could no longer hide my eyes. She re-arranged the squirrel several times, while studying me, and then decided she should return to the nest, leaving the squirrel behind.

A friend suggested that she was offering it to me. You never know! After dark, I disposed of the squirrel. This squirrel was part of mating couple of squirrels, and the mate came by a couple of times to look at her partner.

Canon EOS 30D
1/400s f/5.6 at 200.0mm iso400 full exif

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