This zoomed and cropped image shows the top of a branch where a Red-tailed Hawk is perched. The hawk is holding the branch with one leg while the other is pulled up into a tuck for a one-legged perch.

A slightly pulled-back zoom.

A crop of the full bird, almost directly overhead.

Talons. Three crops - same photo. The Red-tailed Hawk had just released the branch with its second leg and was in the midst of tucking. #redtailedhawk #bird #birdphotography #birdsofnyc #nycwild

A northern shoveler drake stares into the lens

A Northern Shoveler drake lets water glide off his bill

A northern shoveler drake seems so front-loaded as he swims right to left across the frame

I *might* have a favorite duck. There are just so many good ones. #northernshoveler #bird #birdphotography #birdsofnyc #nycwild

Closeup portrait of a shoveler hen

Hen's teeth? Not scarce!

#northernshoveler #bird #birdphotography #nycwild #birdsofcentralparknyc