{"id":118954,"date":"2022-09-13T05:13:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=118954"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:31:22","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-in-low-flight-over-sagebrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/red-tailed-hawk-in-low-flight-over-sagebrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk In Low Flight Over Sagebrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More curled primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago I posted a photo of a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk in flight whose primaries on both wings were curled by air pressure caused by strenuous flight. At the time I mentioned how much I like seeing curled primaries in my photos, as evidence of how well they’re ‘engineered’ to get the job done without breaking under that much physical pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I found another photo of the same hawk that illustrates the same feature.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"118955\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/red-tailed-hawk-in-low-flight-over-sagebrush\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS R5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1661180801","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.000125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"red-tailed hawk 3709 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-118955 size-full\" title=\"red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/8000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was taken quite a while after ‘he’ took off but he was on a mission, presumably after prey, so he was still attempting to gain speed which resulted in dramatically curled primaries on both wings. I’m always amazed that such light and supposedly ‘delicate’ structures as feathers can withstand that much bending without breaking or being damaged in some other way.<\/p>\n<p>I like the photo for other reasons too, including his concentration and sense of purpose and his flared and ‘scooped’ tail. He’s sharp, I like the sagebrush-dominated setting and background and the feather groups on his right wing are unusually well defined.<\/p>\n<p>If you’re thinking I’ve been posting a lot of Red-tailed Hawk photos lately, you’re right. Which brings to mind an old friend, an excellent bird photographer and a good guy, who famously said years ago that he doesn’t photograph red-tails because they’re so “common” in his area. Well, guess what he posted to social media yesterday. Yup, a photo of a Red-tailed Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>A love, or at least an appreciation, for red-tails is contagious – eventually they’ll get ya.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>PS – Apparently some readers are having troubles with my blog this morning. Some can’t load it and others can’t comment. I’m looking into it but so far I’m stumped.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More curled primaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/red-tailed-hawk-in-low-flight-over-sagebrush\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118955,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,450],"tags":[452,6501,945,146,451,311],"class_list":["post-118954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-curled-primaries","tag-feather-groups","tag-flight","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red-tailed-hawk-3709-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-uWC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118985,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118954\/revisions\/118985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}