"Red tailed hawks like to perch on telephone and fence poles and watch for rabbits and mice in the long grasses," Stephen Lyman said of The Raptor's Watch. "I wanted to capture this particular hawk on its vigil because of the textures in the scene -- in the leaves of the blackberry bush, the moss lichen growing on the fence post and the plowed field in the background."

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"The Raptor's Watch" © Stephen Lyman Estate and The Greenwich Workshop, Inc.