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A Red-tailed Hawk stump-jumping.

Swampy areas afford bird photographers some advantages like dead trees for birds to perch in and lots of sunshine for high shutter speeds. If you can wait long enough and find a place to sit and be still, you might get a photograph of a raptor flying from stump to stump.

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Date Taken: 11.2020
Date Uploaded: 11.2020
Photo Location: Michigan, United States of America
Copyright: © Gregory Seitz