A few photos by Jessa while out hawking on a very pleasant January day:
Cottonwoods are the dominant tree in this riparian forest, but I love the sycamores.
As we got back to the car, this passage female redtail landed nearby. Stekoa calmly finished his meal on the fist and then leapt eagerly into his box as usual, our visitor watching the proceedings with interest. Jessa started calling her "Stekoa's girlfriend", but I don't think so: Stekoa and I were back here for a morning hunt a few days later, and I had to call the whole thing off because Stekoa was too intent on chasing a passager off his field—this same bird, I suspect—to get down to the business of hunting.
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