Karl and Kathleen Nichter Photography



This blog began in 2009, about a year after we started our photography business. People attending our photo exhibits, or our hikes and workshops, asked for details on where we traveled for photography. As naturalists we usually kept a field journal, so we used that as a basis for Field Notes.
In Summer, 2014 we took a break from the blog because our business, and lives were changing. In January 2015 the blog restarted with an expanded theme. It now contains photography, notes, and articles from all of our travels and all of our photography, not just nature themed. The posts prior to 2014 have been archived.

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Red-shouldered Hawk at Brooker Creek Preserve

Red-shouldered Hawks frequently fly overhead and call at Brooker Creek Preserve (Tarpon Springs, FL). On a recent bird count (an 18 year and still running citizen science project at the preserve) we spotted this one directly overhead in a tree near the bridge over the main channel of the creek.
 
 
He flew to another tree next to the trail, and watched us as we walked by. I compared these photographs to both my desk version of Sibley Guide to Birds and the Peterson Hawks of North America. Based on those illustrations, and the bird's behavior, this appears to be a juvenile.


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