{"id":102168,"date":"2021-09-10T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=102168"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:10:57","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-taking-off-from-a-juniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/red-tailed-hawk-taking-off-from-a-juniper\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk Taking Off From A Juniper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a Red-tailed Hawk kind of day. In fact red-tails were just about the only birds I photographed during my morning in the mountains of the west desert but most of them weren’t particularly cooperative.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This one came closest to being a willing subject. ‘She’ was perched at the top of a juniper in reasonably good light and she was even turned broadside to me before she took off. I made the mistake of stopping my pickup just a little too close to her for takeoff and flight shots so…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

when she took off I…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

clipped her left wing in what was potentially the best shot I got of her.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I clipped or cut off body parts in many of the flight shots that followed but I got lucky with this one. I managed to get a couple of other flight shots with no amputated body parts but I didn’t like them much. This photo is full frame (uncropped) so as you can see I had very little wiggle room, especially for a bird in flight.<\/p>\n

This may not be the best takeoff series I’ve ever taken but it’s been a very long time since I’ve posted any hawk photos so I figured some of us, including yours truly, would appreciate a long overdue raptor fix.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was a Red-tailed Hawk kind of day.<\/p>\n

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