Bird bands and a tennis-coaching red-tailed hawk

A red-tailed hawk, with a leg band, photographed at the Saddle and Cycle Club on the North Side. (Brian Black)

Brian Black was playing tennis at the Saddle and Cycle Club near Foster and the lakefront Monday when he was aced by an adult red-tailed hawk.

“It swooped down and landed on an outdoor umbrella,” Black said. “It stayed a good long time like it was judging my bad tennis, but not as harshly as I judge my tennis.”