Red-shouldered Hawk

Description:

I frequently see RSHs around the offices at work, but I have never had one be so tolerant of my taking pictures. Maybe it was because I stayed in my vehicle and was somehow less threatening, but I was able to drive around it and get pictures from various angles. It was still sitting there when I left. Being so close I was able to see a behavior that my pictures are otherwise not fine enough to detect - how very high up against its breast these hawks are able to retract one foot while perched on the other. I had seen spots on both the RSH and the RTHs that I have been puzzling over (are they wounds? are they brood patches?) Looks like it's very possible that I'm seeing the birds' own talons poking out of warm feathers.

Notes:

Spotted on a traffic sign at the entrance of a parking lot to a office/warehouse building in Kennesaw GA