Manicure or Pedicure

This is a common hawk around these parts and remarkably sometimes captured digitally on one of the trail cameras.  Like this one from the last batch of photos we recently uploaded.

Don't take my word for it; if you go to the 'LABELS' feature on the left side of the blog homepage you can click on Red-Tailed Hawk or Raptors to see previous posts on the subject.

This bird comes in a range of colors stretch from dark brown to almost white.  Typically they're shades of brown, white breast and a distinctive rust-red tail.  Both sexes are similarly-colored with the female being slightly larger in size.  Yes, you'll find photos here of a pair.  

They raise one brood a year and the young of the year don't develop the red tail until the second year.  Contrary to what the book says - this species is found here year-round.

Here's a captive (rescue) bird; providing a good look at the talons found on this  raptor.  

If a raptor goes to a nail salon do they get a manicure or a pedicure?