Thanks for all of your great comments everyone! Taken at a rare time when a lone rough-legged hawk came to visit at the Nanaimo Estuary. It spent several weeks there and was very tame leaving many people with fantastic images.

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Went with Pius and Dave yesterday to have a bit of fun on the mainland at Brunswick Point and Boundary Bay. Tried to get a few good shots of this rough-legged hawk. Pretty skittish but managed to get some distant images of him hunting. Here the hawk is just hovering in the wind.

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Taken when he landed on a bush right beside me at the viewing platform on the Nanaimo River.

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Haven't seen any of these guys here for a couple of years. Here is one from the archives that never got posted. It is one in a series of 3 images that I took of a rough-legged hawk blasting off of a tree on the Nanaimo River back in 2015. Hope you like it.

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Another image from the archives. A rough-legged hawk launches itself off of a cherry tree at the Nanaimo River Estuary.

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