I was feeling a little lazy this morning, and so didn’t make it into the field for photography.  Happily, as is often the case, the Christmas night snow brought a Cooper’s hawk to my bird feeders, looking for a songbird meal.   (This one eats a lot of house sparrows, which is fine with me).   In what is surely the easiest wildlife image I’ve made, I captured these images standing in my kitchen (in my robe), shooting out the door.   As long as I stayed inside the house, the hawk was oblivious to my presence.  I used my neighbors’ garages as the backgrounds in both images.  The green garage makes a nice background for the head shot, while the white garage made for a nice, high key background for the second image below.  As always, click on the images for a larger view.

I can’t quite decide whether I like the stick at the upper left — I alternate between thinking that it gives the image a touch more context and thinking that it is distracting.  Have a though? Post a comment.