{"id":164222,"date":"2024-09-16T06:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164222"},"modified":"2024-09-16T06:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:30:05","slug":"adult-red-tailed-hawk-taking-off-and-in-flight-in-the-west-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/adult-red-tailed-hawk-taking-off-and-in-flight-in-the-west-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Red-tailed Hawk Taking Off And In Flight In The West Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I posted a Red-tailed Hawk series.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I spent a delightful morning in the west desert. Light was perfect, temps were moderate, there was no wind, birds were beginning to migrate and some of them were even cooperative.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

However, I wouldn’t quite call this particular adult Red-tailed Hawk “cooperative”.<\/p>\n

The first time I spotted ‘him’ he was close to the dirt road in front of me but he took off as I got closer and I figured he was gone for good. Then, as I crested a small hill, there he was – perched close to the road again. But he took off once more and this time I saw him land on a rocky outcrop in front of me but further from the road.<\/p>\n

This time he was far enough away from the road to allow me to pull up parallel to him and take a few shots of him perched. When he roused, as he’s doing here (thus the flying feather), I figured he was about to take off.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I was right.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Given his elevated perch, he took off more vertically (and stayed stiff-legged longer) than I expected him to.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

But I still managed to…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

keep him in frame for four shots before I started clipping body parts. I’m not including the nine photos after this one because of clipped wings and\/or a soft bird.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

But then I was able to get him in focus again. Here he’s about to drop down behind…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

some more high rocks, so this is the last shot I’m including of the series. After this he dropped down behind the rocks at bottom and disappeared in the small valley between those rocks and the mountainside in the background. The last two photos are very similar but they’re my favorites of the series.<\/p>\n

Yes, I wish I’d been closer. If I had been, image quality would have been better. But I was pleased to get a red-tail in a natural setting in my viewfinder again, even though he never did show me the beautiful red top of his tail.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I spent a delightful morning in the west desert. Light was perfect, temps were moderate, there was no wind, birds were beginning to migrate and some of them were even cooperative. (7 photos)<\/p>\n

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