Red-tail waiting for a blue supper

 

 

I was leaving the far parking lot when I caught a glimpse of this optimistic predator…perhaps he was thinking that if he just waited long enough, a swallow or bluebird might confuse him for part of the nest box and make a tasty nest inside his belly!

More likely, I suppose, was his scoping out of the grassy scrub below for something mammalian and tasty, but one never knows the thoughts that take flight in the sun-addled brains of a red-tailed hawk.