For the eighth year in a row, ever since I moved here in 2017, my buddy the rough legged hawk has returned to his winter hunting ground.
There’s not a whole lot to say about it, other than he likes to hunt in the open space just south of my house. Either he is used to me, or he just isn’t afraid of people, but fortunately for me he allows me to get close while he goes about his hunting.
Here he is diving under the snow after a rodent. I don’t know if he caught something or not, but he was under the snow for a while before coming back up for air. I’m sure he was under the snow long enough to devour something small!
As a bonus, I also got a nice shot of this young buck mule deer 🙂
Here are a few more of my favorites from the day, some of which will soon be uploaded to my website for sale as prints and commercial stock images.
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Steven W. Krull is a renowned photographer and author who has been photographing and writing of the beauty and wildlife of the Colorado Rocky Mountains for over two decades. Please visit his website at S.W. Krull Imaging to view his work, including thousands of prints for sale, stock images for commercial use, and his library of published books.
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