Don’t adjust your computer monitor! This Harris’s Hawk is in a nose dive. Lora Render took the photo with a Canon 7d and 100-400mm lens at Choke Canyon State Park, between San Antonio and Corpus Christi, in Texas. Look at the wing pattern: mostly blackish but with reddish brown wing coverts on upperside and underside.
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