Focusing on the male Red-Shouldered Hawk~

It is not often that I have the opportunity to view, or photograph the male hawk. He is very wary, very protective and if I ever thought either he, or the female would threaten me in any harmful way, my bets would be on him. Thus said, the other day, I was sitting and observing the nest site in a quiet area of the grove, minding my own business, when the male seemed to appear from no where and perched in one of his wifey's favorite trees.  He is smaller and paler than she is, but quite the handsome chap~