It has been one of those years in which, if I didn't have any photographs,…

Hawk Photos: Hawk Takes Snake
I was watching this hawk balance on a cholla just west of the Pueblo Reservoir in Colorado (USA). Suddenly, the hawk shot almost straight up, crossed the road and dropped nearly straight down just beyond the barbed-wire fence where I was standing. It took a snake and zipped off to the north, snake in claws.