A Red-Tailed Hawk keeping an eye on things at Ridgefield NWR (Near Vancouver, Washington)

Not everyone flies South for the Winter…
(More Hawk photography here)

A young Red-Tailed Hawk keeping an eye on things
(On a heavily overcast day, during the dark part of the year, at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in South-Western Washington State)

So… if you feel intimidated by the way this Red-Tailed Hawk is looking at you, from above… imagine how he feels to have a huge dark “eye” (telephoto lens) staring back at him