Vermont Raptor Center

We went to the Vermont Raptor Center today. This Red-tailed Hawk is used to demonstrate flight patterns. He flies to a platform and then back for a ‘mouse’ meal that the trainer has in his hand. The hand holding ‘dinner’ has 3 layers of thick leather to protect it!

What a majestic bird…when he turns those fierce eyes on you…it’s daunting! His eyesight is so incredibly sharp that if he ‘could’ read…he would be able to read the fine print on a newspaper the length of a football field away.

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