Red-Tailed Hawk Mobbing a Golden Eagle

The upper bird is a Red-Tailed Hawk. The lower bird is a Golden Eagle. The hawk is "mobbing" (harassing) the eagle because the eagle is on the hawk's turf. The eagle has rolled on his back and has his talons up to defend himself against the hawk.

Photo by Chuck Tribolet, triblet@almaden.ibm.com using a Nikon 600mm lens, a Nikon 2x doubler, and a Nikon SLR body on Kodak Lumiere 100X (LPZ) slide film. They were scanned with a Nikon CoolScan. Digital image processing was done under OS/2 using ColorWorks V2 (tm) by SPG. And no, the two birds were not moved closer digitally.

Last Modified: Friday, 07-May-2004 11:17:56 PDT

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