{"id":123607,"date":"2022-11-15T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=123607"},"modified":"2022-11-15T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:01:46","slug":"rough-legged-hawk-aerial-dogfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/15\/rough-legged-hawk-aerial-dogfight\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough-legged Hawk Aerial Dogfight"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first Rough-legged Hawk photos of the season. They’ve been around for a while now but my time in the field has been so limited for so long, these are the first interesting Roughie photos I’ve managed to get.<\/p>\n

Four days ago in northern Utah I drove up on a beautiful female Rough-legged Hawk as she was perched on a rustic old wooden fence post that was loaded with character and appeal. She allowed me to get close, she was facing me and she was in good light so I was excited (nearly to the point of buck fever) to finally get my first nice Roughie photos of the season.<\/p>\n

But she had other priorities. A split-second before I got her in my viewfinder she…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

took off like a bat out of hell and chased down another female roughie that I hadn’t seen about 100 yards to the west. Apparently she didn’t appreciate the competition from another Roughie in her hunting territory so the two of them duked it out in aerial combat for quite a while.<\/p>\n

When one of them would turn tail, fly off and land on a sagebrush some distance away, the other one would chase that bird down and the combat would resume. That happened three or four times. At that distance I had difficulty focusing on them in flight but I got a few shots that documented the behavior reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Here both birds are about to go at each other but…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

two shots in the burst later the hawk on the right…<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

blinked first, turned tail and landed on a sagebrush some distance away. The other hawk gave chase but by then they were so far away my photos of the ensuing fight left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, next time I get an opportunity like this with fighting Roughies I’ll be closer to them, but for me these photos will do in the interim.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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My first Rough-legged Hawk photos of the season.\u00a0 (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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