{"id":139147,"date":"2025-02-01T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=139147"},"modified":"2025-01-31T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:46:18","slug":"red-tailed-hawks-at-bakers-field-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/01\/red-tailed-hawks-at-bakers-field-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawks At Baker’s Field At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image shows Baker’s Field late last month at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. It also shows several hawks, but they aren’t so easy to see.<\/p>\n

\"Baker'sBaker’s Field At Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/p>\n

On our last few trips to the refuge, my friend Steve Creek<\/span><\/a> and I have seen large numbers of hawks at the Baker’s Field area. Some were flying, some were hunting, and some were perched in the trees that border the field.<\/p>\n

In fact, there were quite a few Red-tailed Hawks scanning the fields for prey from these trees. I’d say that, even at web-sized resolution, at least one of the Red-tailed Hawks can be seen easily. But there are at least four more hawks in the trees.<\/p>\n

I know, they are hard to see even in the original full sized high resolution they are hard to see.<\/p>\n

\"AA few of the Red-tailed Hawks at Baker’s Field<\/span><\/p>\n

I added an inset that I copied from the original image to show where four more hawks are located in the image above. But you know what? There might be more.<\/p>\n

Even with keen eyesight and solid locating skills, I’m pretty sure I could have missed some of the hawks perching in the trees overlooking Barker’s Field.<\/p>\n

Will all the hawks be there when I get back to the refuge? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

What were the hawks after? I\u2019m guessing rodents that have been eating corn in the field.<\/p>\n

To attract that many hawks, there are probably lots of rodents around that field.<\/p>\n

Maybe the hawks will be there when we head back to the refuge; maybe they won’t. I can say they have been interesting to observe and that I’d love to photograph them if they’d just fly in a little closer!<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

To see more of my journeys to Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image shows Baker’s Field late last month at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. It also shows several hawks, but they aren’t so easy to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13973,449,13974],"tags":[16193,2663,14190,13984,4170,2497,16180,4033,4169,16192,3970,4104,153,4209,4018,4076,373],"class_list":["post-139147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-red-tailed-hawks","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-bakers-field","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forest","tag-bottomlands","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-buteos","tag-corn-field","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-oklahoma","tag-hunting","tag-perched","tag-raptors","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-sky","tag-trees","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t