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<\/p>\nA photo that messes with my head.<\/p>\n
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1\/800, f\/8, ISO 400, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, canvas added, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This is an older photo of an immature Rough-legged Hawk on Antelope Island. I spent a lot of time with ‘him’ as he basked in the morning sun and then preened and groomed to his heart’s content. I have many nice photos of him, which is why you may recognize the perch. I’ve posted several of them in the past.<\/p>\n But this one is different. He was inspecting his belly feathers and he was very serious about the inspection. It may look like I caught him as he was beginning to reach toward those belly feathers but he held this pose for quite a while as he scanned his belly to see if some of the feathers down there needed his attention. I have many photos of him in this somewhat unusual pose.<\/p>\n This photo gives my brain fits. If I look at his head for a few moments, all of a sudden my brain turns his head upside down with the tip of his bill pointing the wrong way and his gape in the wrong place. Once I’ve seen it that way I can’t see it any other way unless I look away for a few seconds and then look back. When I do that sometimes it flips back and sometimes it doesn’t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It’s my guess that some of my viewers will be able to see it the way I do and some won’t. Or maybe it takes a clump of defective brain cells to make it work so I’ll be the only one.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A photo that messes with my head.<\/p>\n