{"id":111567,"date":"2022-05-24T04:32:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=111567"},"modified":"2022-05-24T04:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:32:38","slug":"male-red-tailed-hawk-leaving-his-mate-at-the-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/24\/male-red-tailed-hawk-leaving-his-mate-at-the-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Red-tailed Hawk Leaving His Mate At The Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A difficult setting for photography but I like how this one turned out.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

On one of my birding trips this spring I caught this adult male Red-tailed Hawk in a flight posture I like as he was taking off from his nest. He had just delivered a vole to his mate and young chicks in the nest and was off on another food run. On these food deliveries he doesn’t stay at the nest for long because at this stage of the game he’s the primary source of food for his family.<\/p>\n

I really like the placement of the two hawks in the image with the male’s wings seeming to simultaneously frame and embrace his mate as he’s leaving. The fact that she’s looking at him almost endearingly as he does so only enhances my positive reaction to the photo.<\/p>\n

Largely because of issues with exposure, the lighting at this nest setting is very difficult for photography. As a result I had to do more dinking around with highlights and shadows adjustments during processing than I like to but given what I had to work with I think it turned out pretty well.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

PS – I won’t make you read my entire spiel again but no birds were disturbed while I was photographing the hawks at the nest.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A difficult setting for photography but I like how this one turned out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334,391,450],"tags":[452,146,1539,228,451,2738,311],"class_list":["post-111567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-nesting-and-mating","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-flight","tag-mated-pair","tag-nest","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-takeoff","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/red-tailed-hawk-2090-ron-dudley-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-t1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111589,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111567\/revisions\/111589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}