{"id":118102,"date":"2022-09-03T06:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=118102"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:52:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T12:52:02","slug":"my-new-favorite-photo-of-one-of-my-two-favorite-red-tailed-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/03\/my-new-favorite-photo-of-one-of-my-two-favorite-red-tailed-hawks\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Favorite Photo Of One Of My Two Favorite Red-tailed Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dark morph juvenile.<\/p>\n

I now believe there are actually two unusually dark juvenile Red-tailed Hawks still hanging around the same general area where they were raised in northern Utah and I think both birds are strikingly beautiful. I’ve become quite attached to them so I look for those birds specifically each time I visit the area. Yesterday morning I had many varying opportunities with one of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I was surprised that this one was apparently still associating with at least one of its parents. They were perching and flying together and the juvenile was still acting like it expected (or at least hoped) to be fed by the adult.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Just before I took this photo, the adult and this dark juvie were perched near each other but they were far away on the ground. I was still maneuvering my pickup into position when they both took off so I missed their takeoff shots. But I managed to lock on to the juvie just as ‘he’ was beginning a long, sweeping bank around one of the nearby cliffs.<\/p>\n

I got several shots of him banking but I like this one best because he’s banking so steeply – approaching 90\u00b0. I won’t go into all the reasons it’s so difficult to photograph a raptor banking at such a steep angle, and do it well, but suffice it to say I have very few photos like this one. And it isn’t for lack of trying – especially with Northern Harriers but with any raptor, really.<\/p>\n

Once again, notice how the bird keeps his head level, even with the rest of his body tipped at such a steep angle.<\/p>\n

When this photo was taken, both the adult and the juvie were still close to each other in flight – so close that I’ve cropped the photo to include just a hint of the adult in the frame. Careful observers may be able to find it.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – At the last minute I decided it isn’t playing fair to leave some of my readers, those who couldn’t find the hint of the adult, hanging.<\/p>\n

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So here’s a different crop of the same photo.<\/p>\n

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A dark morph juvenile. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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