{"id":102701,"date":"2021-09-25T04:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=102701"},"modified":"2021-09-25T07:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T13:49:48","slug":"yesterday-i-found-the-immature-ferruginous-hawk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/25\/yesterday-i-found-the-immature-ferruginous-hawk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday I Found The Immature Ferruginous Hawk Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least I think it’s the same bird I photographed four days ago.<\/span> They were in the same area, they were both young birds and they were using the same hunting technique from the same fence line.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, 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

Once again ‘he’ used the line of wooden fence posts to hunt from and repeatedly flew out, either to the north or south, in an attempt to capture prey (probably voles) in the far away grasses. And once again I never saw him capture prey, not even once, but it sure wasn’t for lack of trying. He’s an immature bird so I suspect he’s still ironing out the kinks in his hunting technique. If failure is the best teacher this guy should eventually become a deadly hunter.<\/p>\n

In this photo he’s taking off to fly back to one of the fence posts after yet another unsuccessful attempt at prey.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Here he’s scanning the grasses to the north for prey.<\/p>\n

In this instance I didn’t choose a very good distance from him to stop my pickup for photos. With my teleconverter attached I was a little too close for takeoff and flight shots and I was a little too far away with it removed for good detail. As a result neither my perched or my takeoff shots of him had the same high image quality is they did four days ago.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take him long to spot potential prey to the north so he…<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

took off after it.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the next shot in the burst. Thankfully when he left the post he tilted his body toward me which provided a good look at most of his dorsal surfaces.<\/p>\n

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One of the reasons I wanted to post this series, despite its lack of the highest image quality, is because it illustrates something I tried to explain in my previous post about him. Readers will recall that four days ago I clipped his wing when he was taking off<\/a><\/span><\/span> because he took off at a steeper angle than I expected him to. Ferruginous Hawks are our largest and heaviest hawks so when they take off from elevated perches their takeoff angle usually<\/em> isn’t very steep. Steep takeoff angles waste energy unless there’s good reason for them.<\/p>\n

In this series he’s taking off horizontally which is more typical for heavy-bodied Ferrugs on elevated perches.<\/p>\n

It’s a good thing for bird photographers to learn the habits of their subjects but that’s no guarantee they’ll always<\/em> do what we expect them to. All we can do is play the odds.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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At least I think it’s the same bird I photographed four days ago. They were in the same area, they were both young birds and they were using the same hunting technique from the same fence line.<\/p>\n

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