
When I got to the parking lot at Pauling’s Farm in Valley Forge I spotted the red-tailed hawk in the field. He had a little critter in his talons. He spotted me too and flew up to a branch in a nearby tree. I quickly moved over to get a shot as he turned…

This beautiful male Northern Harrier had just sat down to digest his breakfast when I came upon him in the field across from Washington Chapel in Valley Forge yesterday. He sat for a few hundred photographs before taking off for another snack. Click to really see that beautiful face and glint in his eye.

Just playing a little with the computer and this little hawk today in Valley Forge.

At first I just heard their interesting voices which carried all the way up the newly created meadow to the edge of the woods where I was standing in Valley Forge. Their voices belonged to a pair of mating ravens. I could see them flying into and landing on the stone wall just above…

This little beauty was not shy. She jumped right down in front of me looking for a little chipmunk who got away – thankfully.