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Swainson's Hawk stealing the Spot Light at the KC Air Show by sawblade5

Swainson's Hawk stealing the Spot Light at the KC Air Show

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I got to attend this year 2011 KC Airshow from behind the plant where I work at. We have Swainson's Hawks that make the fields around the plant their territory. Throughout the day of watching the Kansas City Airshow when these planes kept flying overhead the Hawks would be rattled up by these planes flying in their Air Space.

In this Photo I happened to get a Picture of one of em flying when I was shooting at Tim Weber's Extra 300S with the Geico Scheme. It made for an Awesome Photo Subject and even more awesome since my fursona is a fellow buteo the Red-Tailed Hawk.

I enjoyed the Swainson's Hawks as much as watching the Air Show and the Hawks themselves did put on an Air Show of their own as they seem to mimicked the stunts of the planes. All that flying is doing makes me wish I was a real Red-Tailed Hawk flying up there.

Edit: 8/23/2015 After further research on this spotting I realized that this bird is a Swainson's Hawk and not a Redtail as previously mentioned here. I wasn't expecting it to be one as they are a uncommon site where this photo was taken at.

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