buteo lagopus – Feathered Photography

My First Of Season Rough-legged Hawk

And a beautiful, dark morph Red-tailed Hawk. Harbingers of a good winter for raptors? (5 photos)

Likely My Last Rough-legged Hawk Of The Season

I’m tuckered. (2 photos)

Rough-legged Hawk Aerial Dogfight

My first Rough-legged Hawk photos of the season. (3 photos)

Rough-legged Hawk Perched On A Tumbleweed

For this Montana farm boy tumbleweeds symbolize the Old West. As a kid I probably watched too many Western movies.

A Frosted Rough-legged Hawk In The Pre-dawn Twilight

And a minor mystery solved. (2 photos)

Rough-legged Hawk – Making Amends

Or at least trying to.

Banded Adult Female Rough-Legged Hawk

I don’t recall photographing a banded Roughie before.

Adult Male Rough-legged Hawk Flight Series

A ten image flight series. And the loss of a giant in the birding world.

Adult Rough-legged Hawk In Full Flight

Yesterday morning the fog was threatening but it mostly stayed away.

Adult Male Rough-legged Hawk In Flight

And a series of three wicked snowstorms, the first of which blew in last night.

Rough-legged Hawk In Flight, Finally

And fighting lunacy with lunacy… using birds.

Rough-legged Hawk Stretching At Sunrise

I guess I’m becoming a little more tolerant of unnatural perches.

Male American Kestrel In A Variety Of Poses

And a Rough-legged Hawk thrown in for good measure.

Rough-legged Hawk Inspecting His Belly

A photo that messes with my head.

My First Rough-legged Hawk(s) Of The Year

Three of them within minutes of each other.

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