buteo jamaicensis – Page 14 – Feathered Photography

Red-tailed Hawk In Flight With Prey

This cooperative adult Red-tailed Hawk with prey was a huge challenge under difficult conditions yesterday morning.

Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk In Flight And At Takeoff

This might be the most spectacular and unique raptor I’ve ever photographed or even seen. In fact there’s no “might be” about it – without qualification, it is. And I even got some pretty decent photos of it in flight.

A Red-tailed Hawk And Remembering To Practice What I Preach…

plus seeing the details of bird athleticism in my images that happen too fast for me to notice them in real time.

Red-tailed Hawk – Making Lemonade Out Of A Big Fat Lemon

Or at least trying to…

A Red-tailed Hawk At Takeoff And My Growing Appreciation For “Old Stuff”

Some element-rich images like this one draw me in because there’s so much there to entertain me.

Red-tailed Hawk At Takeoff And In Flight – An Eleven Image Series

I took exactly forty shots of this hawk during takeoff and in flight. Eleven of them made the cut to include here, for reasons both good and not so good.

Landing Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk

Blog followers know I have a strong aversion for power poles and wires in my images. But thanks to input from readers I’ve had a change of heart when the poles are ancient and the insulators are the old-fashioned kind.

Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff Series, By Request

I was delighted to get so many sharp shots of this Red-tailed Hawk during and after takeoff.

Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff From Atop A Cliff

By now readers must know how much I like this particular takeoff posture in raptors. For me images like this are full of tension and energy and my mind’s eye wanders as I try to imagine the details of what happened next.

Red-tailed Hawk Takeoff Series

I’ve photographed a lot of Red-tailed Hawks recently and the streak continued yesterday morning near the north end of Utah’s Promontory Mountains.

A Landing Red-tailed Hawk Series

It’s hard enough to get a single sharp shot of a landing raptor but nine days ago I captured an entire series of them near Montana’s Centennial Valley.