Hawks and Owls Photography Prints

Hawks and owls are North America’s most widely encountered birds of prey, and they divide the day between them: hawks hunt on the wing in daylight, riding thermals and scanning open ground from a perch, while most owls work at dusk and after dark, relying on asymmetrically set ear openings to locate prey by sound alone. Both are built for the same task in different ways — the hawk for speed and eyesight, the owl for silence, with a soft leading edge on the flight feathers that breaks up the turbulence which would otherwise announce its approach. Photographing either means finding a bird that has chosen to tolerate you, and waiting: raptors spend far more time watching than they do flying.

20 photographs in this collection, available as canvas, acrylic and aluminium prints.

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