I’m gonna meddle with the Bird of the Day feature here. I have thousands of images of Red-tailed Hawks. Red-tailed Hawks come in thousands of different varieties/plumages. So I will regularly drop in a photo of one of those as the Bird of the Day.

And this one is special. Feb 13, 2018, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Wildcat Creek Road west of the Manhattan airport. I was recently retired, and had a new Olympus camera and Panasonic/Leica lens, adjusting to that new system after many years shooting with Canon gear. I saw this young redtail, and got a bunch of shots of it both perched and in flight, and I was hooked. I had no idea that redtails came in plumages like this. I had no idea that I lived in one of the best places in the country for seeing this species in a tremendous variety of plumages. I have been learning ever since.

Bird of the Day — Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas 2018

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