This juvenile goshawk swooped down from a tree and landed right next to us. This photo was snapped just before a red mongoose ambushed from the clump of grass to the right rear of the bird. The goshawk startled and managed to get airborne just as the mongoose reached him, and the mongoose launched himself at least 18 inches off the ground with a impossibly predatory burst of hunting lust. But he missed by inches. Wow. I didn't get the red mongoose on film, but I did get the bird right before.
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