Red-Tails Acting Strangely

PaulNJ, please tell me:

Heard an awful racket yesterday. Saw what looked to me as a juvenile RT hawk being driven out by possibly the parents? How long do the juveniles stay with the parents?

Not very good images. Only got off these two images.


The kestrel only because I got him just moments after getting the RT's.

mating ritual loupey,

if they could wacth you when you are performing a mating ritual they would say the same thing. even though they didn't come out great justy being around it with a camera is a very fortunate thing.:thumbsup:

Wow three in one shot! I would be happy to get one in one shot, lol.

terryger hit the nail on the head.... mating ritual it is.

Thanks, guys. Not the most romantic/tender courtship in the animal kingdom.

Perhaps that explains the nervous look over the back on this shot. Captured a few days earlier in a different location as this one swooped down about 100 yards in front of and below another one already soaring.