{"id":118519,"date":"2022-09-09T05:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=118519"},"modified":"2022-09-09T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:33:57","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-the-rest-of-the-takeoff-and-flight-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-the-rest-of-the-takeoff-and-flight-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk – The Rest Of The Takeoff And Flight Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago I posted one of these seven photos to my blog and said you’d be seeing more of this hawk soon. Today I keep my promise. Or follow through with my threat, depending on how you look at it.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This presumed male, juvenile Red-tailed Hawk was the first bird I found and photographed three days ago in Box Elder County. He was at just about the right distance for takeoff and flight shots so that’s what I set up and prepared for.<\/p>\n

But this guy was sneaky. He looked intently to his left, as if he’d spotted prey out there on the flats, but at the last second he…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

twisted on his perch and took off in the opposite direction. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear he deliberately tried to fake me out.<\/p>\n

This photo and the following five are sequential shots in a burst without any skips.<\/p>\n

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1\/4, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the photo I posted two days ago.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Liftoff. This is the last photo that will include the rocky perch he’d been on.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This isn’t my favorite wing position but I’m including the shot for the sake of continuity. And I do like the feather texturing on the underside of his left wing.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Here he’s using his wings to literally pull his body through the air in a near-horizontal direction. I’m not sure I have another photo quite like this one in my entire portfolio.<\/p>\n

My, what long legs you have!<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

The last photo I’ll include. I’ve always been particularly fond of images like this one where the wings span diagonally across the frame from corner to corner. I almost clipped his left wingtip, but I’ve heard that “almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades so I’m not going to worry about how close I came.<\/p>\n

I actually got 13 additional photos of him in flight with no body parts clipped or cut off but none of them were tack sharp like these are. Most of them were sharp enough that, at this low resolution, I doubt that my readers would notice any softness.<\/p>\n

But I’d know. Besides, when it comes to photos in blog posts there can be too much of a good thing.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: On this trip to the area I’ve been visiting all summer it became obvious almost immediately that the number of red-tails had decreased dramatically. After a long and successful breeding season, many of the juveniles and even some of the adults have dispersed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Two days ago I posted one of these seven photos to my blog and said you’d be seeing more of this hawk soon. Today I keep my promise.<\/p>\n

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