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20-NOV-2010

Sharp-shinned Hawk - juvenile - Duxbury, MA - Nov. 20, 2010

This is the first of a series of close ups taken over roughly 3 minutes starting about 3minutes after the first shot. Note that these all show the yellow bare skin around the eyes (supraorbital ridge) that the Raptor book points out is hard to see except at close range. Why is this helpful? Cooper's Hawks have a gray supraorbital ridge - if you can see it!

Believe it or not this is not a close-up extracted from the previous shot - it was taken 10 seconds later according to my camera. The bird was fixated on me for a bit and it seems it didn't move a feather!

Canon EOS 40D
1/125s f/4.5 at 115.0mm iso250 full exif

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