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31-JUL-2012 Tom Grey

Cooper's Hawk, male, molting to first basic

My back yard, Stanford campus

This molting year-old Cooper's Hawk visited our back yard fountain. Note adult reddish breast barring, retained juvenile striped head and brown nape, yearling orange iris, upperparts with adult male gray-blue mostly molted in but some juvenile brown feathers remaining. For a view of the same bird visiting the same spot a week later, see http://www.pbase.com/image/145277829 .

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV ,Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM
1/800s f/4.0 at 500.0mm iso1600 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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bp 03-Aug-2012 03:17
Not only educational, but dramatic. superb photo.