{"id":103011,"date":"2021-10-05T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=103011"},"modified":"2021-10-05T06:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T12:44:55","slug":"female-red-tailed-hawk-perched-taking-off-and-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/female-red-tailed-hawk-perched-taking-off-and-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Red-tailed Hawk – Perched, Taking Off And In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

This female light morph red-tail is the mate of the male rufous morph I posted photos of yesterday<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve photographed one or both of them several times this summer and fall and two days ago I found them again. She was perched here for quite a while while her rufous mate was perched far away on the other side of a cliff in the direction she’s looking. After a while I could hear him calling, presumably to her, so I believe he had flown and landed closer to her but I still couldn’t see him.<\/p>\n

The following six images are sequential photos in a burst with no skips.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

Eventually she took off in his general direction.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

In the next shot we get the peekaboo look.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

Reaching for some bigtime air.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

She flared her tail as she began a shallow bank to her left. That tail looks pretty beat up, probably due to wear and molt.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 think this flight posture illustrates her determination and her focus.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

Well, you knew I couldn’t photograph an entire flight series without clipping a wing. All I clipped is a few pixels of a single primary but a clip is a clip. I still like the shot.<\/p>\n

I got quite a few photos of her in flight after this one but she started to turn slightly away from me and to be honest, many of them weren’t as sharp as I like. And yes, in those shots I clipped or cut off more body parts.<\/p>\n

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Mated Red-tailed Hawks remain together throughout the year so I’m hoping these two will continue to hang out in this area for the winter and raise a family next spring and summer. In this devastating drought it’s one of the few areas around here that appears to have enough voles to keep an entire family of hawks adequately fed. And on some level these hawks seem to know it.<\/p>\n

On this morning I photographed the male eating a vole so I’m at least slightly optimistic.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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This female light morph red-tail is the mate of the male rufous morph I posted photos of yesterday.<\/p>\n

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