{"id":147201,"date":"2023-11-26T05:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=147201"},"modified":"2023-11-26T05:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T12:51:43","slug":"a-red-tailed-hawk-a-magpie-and-a-rabbit-with-only-one-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/26\/a-red-tailed-hawk-a-magpie-and-a-rabbit-with-only-one-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red-tailed Hawk, A Magpie And A Rabbit – With Only One Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I try to boot up my primary computer I get the dreaded “blue screen of death”, so today or tomorrow that computer will be going into the shop for repair. Since I’m on a backup computer, today’s post consists of older photos taken in Box Elder County, Utah in February of 2017. <\/em><\/p>\n

There was a tremendous amount of snow on the ground up there so I was in a completely white world. Much of the time I couldn\u2019t even see the horizon because the ground blended into the sky at a boundary that could not be discerned. Definitely not the best conditions for bird photography.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This adult Red-tailed Hawk with prey was perched on the top of a vertical cliff so ‘she’ was on one of the few spots I could see that wasn’t covered with deep snow. The prey in her talons was what was left of a rabbit that appeared to have been fed upon for several days. She wasn’t particularly hungry at the moment (I could see that her crop was at least partially full) but she was desperate to keep the rabbit away from the pesky magpie that simply would not leave her alone.<\/p>\n

For a very long time, long enough for me to take over 100 photos similar to this one, it was a standoff. But eventually she…<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

took off with her prize trailing behind her. In this shot I clipped at least one of her primaries but that doesn’t bother me as much as the flat lighting and nearly white background. That said, I was pleased to get the bird sharp in flight in conditions like these.<\/p>\n

And I couldn’t help but notice that the prominent rabbit’s foot trailing behind the hawk had been no luck at all for its rightful owner.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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A standoff. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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