Juvie SEO - Lifer

Olympus E5, 150mm, 2xTC, f6.3, 1/800, ISO100 handheld out window

Had a fantastic morning today - even home by 9AM. Saw about a dozen adult SEO's and most posed for me. One even flew about 8 posts ahead of me every time I was finished shooting and started to move the vehicle forward. I stopped again and he posed and flew ahead 3 times to wait for me again....amazing. Lots of hawks around, too, but the icing on the cake was a pair of juvie SEO's along the road. Didn't even see them in the shadows of the long grass on the dirt road's edge until they flew up. I thought I had lost my longtime goal of finding juvies - have never seen one before, or even seen a photo of one. However, they each flew to a fence post on opposite sides of the road, and this guy was on the correct lighting side. They are really dark in color with a very black face - almost full size, though. I stayed for 20 minutes getting shots of both of them before driving off to get shots of a Burrowing Owl I found the day before - he cooperated, too. I drove back along this same route on the way home, and they were still on posts in the same area. I am going out again in the morning to try again before they go somewhere else. I got an amazing amount of different shots....some very cool....so will post a couple along the way.