{"id":164524,"date":"2024-10-01T06:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164524"},"modified":"2024-10-01T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:31:45","slug":"a-squeaker-with-a-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/01\/a-squeaker-with-a-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Squeaker With A Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago my good friend and neighbor Shane Smith and I spent the morning in the west desert.<\/p>\n

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I’ve mentioned Shane several times in the past so I figured it was about time you ‘met’ him.<\/p>\n

Having Shane along made the seven hours of driving seem shorter and definitely more enjoyable. Fairly recently Shane has become a serious bird and nature photographer. He’s a quick study and he remembers what he’s learned, which makes it all the more fun and rewarding for this retired teacher.<\/p>\n

When I asked him to pose for a couple of photos I could have chosen a more photogenic spot but this photo still represents our morning pretty well. We put those pool noodles to good use all morning.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

When we found this Red-tailed Hawk I didn’t have high hopes for photos I like very much because the bird was partially side lit and I knew that if ‘he’ took off in the direction his body was facing (my left) I’d have no light on his face. But just before he took off he turned his head and looked intently to his<\/span> left.<\/p>\n

If he took off in the direction he was now looking, my chances for takeoff and flight shots I like would vastly improve.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

And that’s what he did. He turned his body in the direction he’d been looking and…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

took off in that same direction, which kept light on his face.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

I got (mostly) lucky with this one photo when he banked so sharply it put his entire body in an almost vertical position, with the morning sun lighting up most of his ventral surfaces.<\/p>\n

I really like this photo, even though what we see here isn’t exactly what my camera captured.<\/p>\n

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This version of the same photo is what my camera captured. I didn’t clip his right wing but I came very very close. Too close for my compositional tastes so in the previous version of the photo I added 200 pixels of blue sky canvas up top.<\/p>\n

Ahh, some breathing room.<\/p>\n

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You can’t come much closer than this to clipping a wing without doing it. Considering that I was about 100′ away from the bird when I took the photo, that’s very little wiggle room.<\/p>\n

A “squeaker” indeed.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Cutting it close. (7 photos)<\/p>\n

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