what more could you ask but for it to swim right through the reflection
This guy would regularly cause traffic jams as his favourite perches were on some of the big trees overhanging the road on Plum Island. One day somebody wound down their car window and said “don’t bother there is a hawk jam ahead”. I tended to get there early and have some peace and quiet. The red-tailed fills the same ecological niche as our buzzard.
and suddenly there were no shorebirds to photograph! Usually this means a raptor event but I wasn’t expecting to see this chap sitting on the rocks. There were regular Peregrine haunts on the inland part of the reserve but I didn’t expect to see one standing on a rock in the middle of a sandy beach