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This is another picture of a Red Tailed Hawk taken about a week ago. I am pretty sure it is the same Hawk that has been hanging around the Nature Preserve for last few weeks. This bird is unusual for me in the fact that I have been able to get quite close to it to take pictures. My previous experience of taking pictures of Hawks is that when I get closer they fly away...this one does not. The only thing I can think of why he is not flying away as I get closer is that he could have migrated here from the far north woods where there is no humans or very few and is naive about human presence.