I need to carry my camera with me
Posted by Nathaniel.
I was taking a little break from editing a paper and walked through a park right next to my office. There were some girls waving around a stick on the other side of the park so I walked over that way to find out that they were trying to defend a hurt bunny from a hawk. After a while, they realized it was kind of pointless and wandered off.
Anyway, I need to carry my real camera with me because the camera on the iPhone is shit by comparison.
A few notes: I saw this hawk a couple days ago on my way to lunch, so it apparently lives on the JHU campus. The campus is bordered by a pretty large wild park, so there are lots of birds here. Other than it being a juvenile something or other, I can’t identify it. I saw the bunny today on my way back from lunch too. It wasn’t doing a lot of moving around at noonish, so I’m guessing that the hawk chose the slow bunny to eat.

May 29th, 2008 at 6:00 pm Using
Almost certainly a red-tailed hawk, likely the eastern subspecies (Buteo jamaicensis borealis).