When days are warm, Providence’s Burnside Park is filled with people – but in colder months only pigeons remain… and the voracious hawks that come to hunt them.
Today I photographed this handsome and hungry Red-tailed Hawk successfully catch, defeather, and consume a pigeon. It’s pretty easy for him – when people feed the pigeons they are distracted while fighting for food, and the hawk simply flies over and picks one up:
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8 Comments
Those are an absolutely amazing series of shots Peter!!!
thank you and happy new year
Fabulous series of shots Peter!
thank you, Hali, I appreciate it
Terrific series of shots!
I really love your pictures. thanks so much.
These shots are amazing!!!!
thank you all for the comments, I appreciate it