While I was making my coffee before dawn, I could see it was going to be an award winning sunrise. I had a few minutes so I got my tripod and went outside with the camera.

Spudder greeted me as always and then tried to show me where her food is.

“Not now, Spudder, gotta take a picture”.

Notice how the early morning sun turned her coat to gold?

Oh yeah, here was the Sunrise. I didn’t manipulate the color at all.

Can you see the 2 red-tailed hawks on the poles?

(left side of the near pole, right side of the far pole).

When I first went out, they were both on the closest pole, side by side.

Looks like a scene from The 300, doesn’t it?

Here’s one I snapped a few minutes later.

Notice the green artifact at the right, I guess it’s lens flare.