Feathered Friday--Red-tailed hawk

Here is my #featheredfriday post! Feel free to post your link in the comments, and tag me @melinda010100 so that I don't miss seeing your birds!

I realized this morning that I needed to get a couple of bird pictures for today's post. So many of the summer birds have already left, and are heading for warmer climates, but I grabbed the camera and went out in the backyard to take a few photos of any birds that I might find.

I was out there for less than a minute when this guy flew in, as if to say, "You need bird pictures? I'm not busy, so I can pose for you!"

He sat in the dead ash tree for quite some time.

Red-tailed hawks are great hunters, but the chipmunks and squirrels must not have realized that he was there, because they continued to go about their day as if they didn't have anything to worry about.