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Swainson's Hawk stealing the Spot Light at the KC Air Show
I got to attend this year 2011 KC Airshow from behind the plant where I work at. We have Swainson's Hawks that make the fields around the plant their territory. Throughout the day of watching the Kansas City Airshow when these planes kept flying overhead the Hawks would be rattled up by these planes flying in their Air Space.
In this Photo I happened to get a Picture of one of em flying when I was shooting at Tim Weber's Extra 300S with the Geico Scheme. It made for an Awesome Photo Subject and even more awesome since my fursona is a fellow buteo the Red-Tailed Hawk.
I enjoyed the Swainson's Hawks as much as watching the Air Show and the Hawks themselves did put on an Air Show of their own as they seem to mimicked the stunts of the planes. All that flying is doing makes me wish I was a real Red-Tailed Hawk flying up there.
Edit: 8/23/2015 After further research on this spotting I realized that this bird is a Swainson's Hawk and not a Redtail as previously mentioned here. I wasn't expecting it to be one as they are a uncommon site where this photo was taken at.
In this Photo I happened to get a Picture of one of em flying when I was shooting at Tim Weber's Extra 300S with the Geico Scheme. It made for an Awesome Photo Subject and even more awesome since my fursona is a fellow buteo the Red-Tailed Hawk.
I enjoyed the Swainson's Hawks as much as watching the Air Show and the Hawks themselves did put on an Air Show of their own as they seem to mimicked the stunts of the planes. All that flying is doing makes me wish I was a real Red-Tailed Hawk flying up there.
Edit: 8/23/2015 After further research on this spotting I realized that this bird is a Swainson's Hawk and not a Redtail as previously mentioned here. I wasn't expecting it to be one as they are a uncommon site where this photo was taken at.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Hawk
Size 1280 x 946px
File Size 76.2 kB
Listed in Folders
I feel the same for Redtails, They're preaty smart birds also, their intelligence really shows in their hunting skills. For an awesome example of that do a search of Red-tailed Hawk vs Rattler. Even the Red-tailed Hawk in the Movie Rango was shown as a clever bird, despite getting killed in the end, but that is what your supposed to do with Villians in those stories.
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