Feeding Time

Today after work, I swung by the red-tailed hawk's nest, and she happened to be feeding her chick. As far as I can tell, there is only one in the nest. I pulled off the highway, just past the sign which reads "No parking. No stopping or standing." As the traffic whizzed by, I lowered the window of the truck halfway, tossed my homemade beanbag (a gallon zip-loc bag full of bird seed) over the edge of the window, rested the telephoto lens on the bag, and fired away.

This is the best of the photos I got. It won't win any contests, but you can clearly see the chick being fed, especially if you click to enlarge the image.

This pic was taken from across the highway. By the time I went to the next exit and turned around to try to get a picture from the same side as the tree, Mom had flown off to get dessert.