She's beautiful. Maybe with a bit of time she'll warm up to being touched. It's far easier to catch solid shots of birds when they are comfortable with your presence.

All the colours of the rainbow, eh?

Absolutely.
(Hive account@dandays, see how Hive account@corvidae correctly used eh above? She's an American who got proper usage of those two letters superfast, why can't you?)

You know I love me some hawkey...

Maybe I'll do a post about it; gotta have the right spin on the story. Seriously, it let me really close and stayed put several times in a very small area. First time one has ever done that around me.