I was on the phone with my son Sunday when the dogs went berserk. Looking into the backyard, I saw why — an enormous Red-tailed Hawk was sitting in the top of the Russian-olive tree in our back yard, lusting over the birds scattering from our feeder.

With a hurried excuse to my son, I snatched up my ever ready camera and took exactly one shot of the hawk:

Not bad for fifty feet away and through a glass door.