Red-tailed Hawk: After the Hunt (2021)

While fly fishing for trout in the upper Toms River one summer afternoon in 2015, I heard a sudden, loud crash in the trees overhead. Fearing that a branch had broken off and was in the process of heading towards where I was standing in the stream, I instinctively ducked and covered my head. After a few seconds, realizing that I hadn't been hit, I looked up to see a red-tailed hawk on a branch wit