Feathered Friday a young Hawk

This is a post for Feathered Friday Hosted originally by Hive account@keithboone, but now hosted by Hive account@melinda010100 and I will share a few more shots of the Hawk I saw a while back in the gardens by the office.

Normally my evening posts are an actifit post with shots taken on my phone, but today I was working from home and doing things around the house and was far from active, the weather is partly to blame I was awake at around 5AM and considered heading out for my morning walk, but it was raining, and supposedly stopping by %, so I waited till 5:30, Still raining, and kept checking but it was still raining at midday as I am preparing this post, so I am not going to get near tot he 5K minimum for an actifit post or my daily goal of 77500 Steps I think so preparing this post instead, but its good to have a rest day now and again I think I have done over 10K steps every day for over 3 weeks now.

OK now to the Hawk in the gardens, I went out to get some shots of flowers in the rose garden and saw a woman looking intently at a light pole, so, me, being the nosy person I am I had to take a look and see myself and I am glad I did as this is what I saw

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^{Sony A7iii 240mm F6.3 1/400 Sec ISO 100}
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The funny thing is as I came down tot he gardens this morning id had been raining till a little while before and I was kind of annoyed I had not brought my Macro lens in for shots of the roses and water drops, but fate was kind to me with my longer lens being that I had with me being the best ones for shots of this beauty

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^{Sony A7iii 240mm F6.3 1/1000 Sec ISO 100}
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And this shot shows it cleaning itself which it was doing while I was watching it and taking these shots, from my last post with shot sof itpeople told me this is most likely a young Hawk and hence why it stopped in the gardens

^{Sony A7iii 219mm F6.3 1/500 Sec ISO 100}
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Now it posed nicely for me for quite a few shots between cleaning itself, but it got coy for this last shot, OK not really it is cleaning itself here

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^{Sony A7iii 166mm F6.3 1/500 Sec ISO 100}
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I was lucky to get these shots of it, as once I had finished taking these shots I headed upstairs to the office and told my colleagues about it, one went down right away to see it, but it was gone by the time they got downstairs.

NOw I said when I started preparing this post that I wouldn't make the 5K for an actifit post today, but with a visit to a shop to grab some new Cookware to replace some that was getting worn, and a walk around the supermarket I did make it over 5K so this is an actifit post.