I am no expert photographer, but am pretty excited with these photos.  We have at least two, maybe three, red-tailed hawks in our woods.  They have been out every afternoon in the trees near our lake.  Yesterday I got the opportunity to get some pretty good photos.  I think, from observing, this is an immature hawk with parent(s).  It sits in the tree and calls.  The other hawks flies off, then comes back lands in a tree and calls to it.  Eventually it flies over.  I think the parent is hunting and coming back to feed.  In one photo, I think the parent is actually feeding the youngster, though it is a back view.  I discovered later they sit in a tree close to our railroad tram, so the close up is from there.  I am going to try to get more from that vantage point.

1.  From the lake tram -- truly eye-to-eye

2.  This must be a southern belle red tailed, her pantaloons are showing!

3.  I believe this is the feeding photo -- if I'd just been on the tram I would have gotten it front view -- this was lakeview

This series I call - Ready or Not, Here I Come and There I Go!

Beautiful!

WOW!   Great pictures.

Jan those are fantastic!

thanks y'all -- he was back again today - I have a feeling mama and daddy or leaving him on his own now -- he cried a lot but I never saw them come to feed and he flew around and circled.  He sat right across from me in the tram car - but he was up in the woods more with the sun shining from behind, so they are okay, but not worth posting here.  I did get one pretty good shot of him circle overhead in the woods.  He is so awesome - or she!

on second thought -- here's one that I touched lightened up a bit with photoshop of his/her profile.

great photos!!!

Well, I am thinking this is  red-tailed, eventhough its tail is not red yet.  The youngsters tails are not red (you can see the reddish tail from below in flight).  I'm am basically judging it as a red-tailed because of it's size.  It seems to large to be a sharp-shinned or Cooper's hawk.  Again, no expert and I'd love anyone's thoughts, but we have lots of red-tails around here, and its other markings and coloring seem right for that species.  I so love to watch them and this has been a real treat.  No idea how long he will live in our woods, but I'm enjoying it while I can!

Ah, thanks.  I looked cooper's hawk, but thought they might be smaller -- do you know their size?  That could be it, though, as no red tail in sight.

I ended up sick at my stomach (hmmm) this afternoon and couldn't go down to look for them.  maybe tomorrow

Beautiful photos, Jan!!! We have a lot of Red-Tailed and Coopers Hawks around here, and you can usually tell the difference in the 2 by their tails, and also by their size in comparison with each other.  Red-Tailed hawks, of course have that reddish brown tail, but it also is shorter and more fanned than a Coopers hawk. The tail of a Coopers hawk is longer and will have those dark bars across the white feathers. 

I love the ones where he is looking you right in the eye!  Excellent photo~

ps---if you listen to the screech they make, and imitate it, they will often "talk" back to you.  Just a little FYI