{"id":132354,"date":"2023-03-17T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=132354"},"modified":"2023-03-17T07:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:09:27","slug":"mated-red-tailed-hawks-yesterday-my-prediction-came-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/17\/mated-red-tailed-hawks-yesterday-my-prediction-came-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Mated Red-tailed Hawks – Yesterday My Prediction Came True"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four days ago I posted this photo of an adult Red-tailed Hawk that I’d briefly seen hanging out with its mate two days before. I knew that it was one bird of a mated pair but I didn’t know if it was the male or the female. And even though I spent quite a while with this one, I saw no nesting activites (nest-building for example) from either bird. We’d had so much snow and it had been so cold I don’t believe their nesting activities had begun in earnest.<\/p>\n

I closed that blog post four days ago with the following prediction: “Next time I\u2019m in the area they should be nest-building and mating. Baby red-tails coming up.”<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday was the “next time I was in the area”. What did I find?<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3m ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Exactly what I predicted.<\/p>\n

I not only got photos of the mated hawks together, I also got them both at their nest and carrying nesting materials to their nest. The pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance came when I photographed them mating. Because I saw them mating, I now know that the dark morph on the right is the male of the pair with the female in flight on the left. Sharp eyes may have noticed that yesterday they’d been perched on the same rock that the female had been perched on six days earlier.<\/p>\n

But… you know the drill. My photos of them at the nest, gathering nesting material and mating will have to wait at least one more day. I’m still not through reviewing and culling my hundreds of photos of them, much less processing those I’ll post.<\/p>\n

It’ll be a while but “baby red-tails coming up”. Assuming they have a successful nesting season of course.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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On both counts. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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