{"id":105335,"date":"2021-12-22T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=105335"},"modified":"2021-12-22T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:41:43","slug":"adult-rough-legged-hawk-in-full-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/22\/adult-rough-legged-hawk-in-full-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Rough-legged Hawk In Full Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning the fog was threatening but it mostly stayed away.<\/p>\n

More often than not my flight shots are taken immediately or very soon after takeoff because it tends to be easier to stay<\/em> locked on to a bird than it is to acquire<\/em> sharp focus after they’re already in flight. So, many of my flight shots show a flight posture that is easily recognizable as post-takeoff, i.e., with the legs still extended backward and downward from pushing off during takeoff. For those kinds of shots the legs are never fully tucked up against the tail.<\/p>\n

So when I get a bird in what I\u00a0 call “full flight” I think it’s a bit more of an accomplishment.<\/p>\n

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1\/8000, 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

Yesterday morning I tried to approach this adult male Rough-legged Hawk while he was perched by backing my pickup a little closer to him. But he was having none of it and took off mostly away from me so with my big lens still stowed in my lens caddy I began to drive away to look for other birds. But while I was driving forward he unexpectedly began to curl around and fly closer and nearly parallel to my pickup in order to land on another favorite raptor perch in front of me.<\/p>\n

I was almost sure I wouldn’t have time to stop my pickup, grab my lens, aim it out my window and lock focus on him before he was past me but I tried anyway. And surprisingly I succeeded. In fact I got about half a dozen sharp shots of him in flight and this is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

I like my shooting angle on the bird, his wing position and the catch light in his eye. And I think he’s an unusually handsome roughie.<\/p>\n

The fact that he’s in full flight adds just a little extra something special, at least for me. These kinds of flight shots have no hint of the dynamic stretching\/reaching postures of recent takeoff but they’re harder to get so I see them as a bit more of an accomplishment.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: Though it’s possible I don’t believe I flushed this hawk. I think he was just ready to fly to another one of his favorite perches.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning the fog was threatening but it mostly stayed away.<\/p>\n

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