Ferruginous Hawks of Utah’s West Desert

The Ferruginous Hawk is a strikingly handsome raptor with its stocky build, white underparts and rufous coloration.  It is the largest North American hawk and has several distinctive features including the fact that its legs are feathered all the way down to the feet.  The Rough-legged Hawk is the only other hawk on this continent to [...]

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The Frustrations of Unnatural Perches

Most bird photographers prefer their subjects to be on natural perches.  We are, after all, nature photographers.  The definition of just what is “natural” becomes a slippery slope for sure but for my purposes I’ll define a natural perch by exclusion - it does not include buildings, telephone poles and wires, chunks of concrete, signs, or most anything else [...]

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