{"id":105733,"date":"2022-01-03T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=105733"},"modified":"2022-01-03T07:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T14:53:50","slug":"a-near-iconic-view-of-an-adult-bald-eagle-and-a-rough-legged-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/03\/a-near-iconic-view-of-an-adult-bald-eagle-and-a-rough-legged-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Near-iconic View Of An Adult Bald Eagle And A Rough-legged Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I had more problems with differential heat waves? at Bear River MBR. If this keeps up I’m thinking about taking up knitting instead of bird photography. After all, the world needs another Rosey Grier<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Just before sunrise yesterday I saw the coldest temperature I’ve experienced so far this winter, 3\u00b0 F., and it didn’t get much warmer while I was at the refuge. The extreme cold was likely, possibly?, the cause of my sharpness problems that lasted all morning.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A minute or two after sunrise, just before I reached the refuge gate, there was an adult Bald Eagle on this old post which has been a favorite eagle perch for years. I suspect nearly every bird photographer who has visited the refuge in winter has photos similar to this one. Recently on my blog I celebrated the first bird I kept photos of in 2021 – a Bald Eagle in a neighbor’s tree. I guess what goes around comes around because this will be the first bird I’ll keep photos of in 2022.<\/p>\n

While I had the eagle in my viewfinder I was suspicious that I wasn’t getting sharp images and I was right. None of my photos of this bird were as sharp as they should be, even though this one doesn’t look too bad at this small size. I deliberately took this photo vertically to include more of the post and make the eagle smaller in the cropped frame so the softness I thought I was seeing through my viewfinder wouldn’t be quite as evident.<\/p>\n

I took more than a thousand photos yesterday, many of which I had high hopes for, but a quick review of them last night revealed that most of them were moderately to grossly soft.<\/p>\n

In fact, one of yesterday’s photos of a Rough-legged Hawk perfectly summed up…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @248mm, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

what I think of most of yesterday’s photos – they were a poopy mess. This photo was taken with my smaller zoom lens which was having sharpness problems in the cold too. At least this one’s reasonably sharp.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/7.1, 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\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Even my photos of this Rough-legged Hawk from a very close vantage point were a little softer than they should have been. We see evidence of the extreme cold in the layers of frost on the back of this bird’s right shoulder and elsewhere. I believe the cold temperatures were causing me to shoot through differential heat waves which caused the softness I was experiencing for most of the morning.<\/p>\n

At least I hope that’s what it was and not something more… sinister.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – A progress? report on a recent development at the refuge.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Not too long ago I reported that I had talked to a refuge employee who told me that this old viewing platform on the south end of the auto tour loop was slated for demolition. Then nothing was done about it for several weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Well, it’s gone now, or at least there’s nothing left of it but a pile of rubble. I was told it was unsafe and if so I can see why it had to be torn down but this bird photographer is going to miss it. And so will the birds that liked to perch on it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning I had more problems with differential heat waves? at Bear River MBR. If this keeps up I’m thinking about taking up knitting instead of bird photography. After all, the world needs another Rosey Grier. (6 photos)<\/p>\n

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