{"id":166291,"date":"2025-01-15T06:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=166291"},"modified":"2025-01-15T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:13:47","slug":"a-shy-prairie-falcon-playing-hide-and-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/a-shy-prairie-falcon-playing-hide-and-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shy Prairie Falcon Playing Hide And Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight days ago, along a lonely road in northern Utah, I spotted a Prairie Falcon on a utility pole in front of me. Readers know that I rarely stop for raptors on utility poles but I’ll always<\/span> make an exception for a Prairie Falcon. When I stopped for this one, ‘he’ flew to the next pole down the line and he did that repeatedly, five times to five different poles. We had a game of cat and mouse going and I was losing.<\/p>\n

But the last time, the fifth time, was different. He was facing me on the horizontal beam of the pole and this time, as I approached him, I watched as he sidestepped closer and closer to the vertical pole to his left and nearly disappeared behind it.<\/p>\n

Watching a Prairie Falcon sidestep is one of the cuter things I’ve seen.<\/p>\n

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Instead of flying off, this time he was trying to hide from me. At first all I could see was part of his head but eventually he made one or two sidesteps to his right, which allowed me to see about 2\/3rds of his body.<\/p>\n

Apparently he thought I couldn’t see him so he never did fly off, even when I passed by very close to him and continued on my way.<\/p>\n

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A vertical composition of the same photo, if you prefer. As I do.<\/p>\n

I rarely like photos of birds that include utility pole perches. But I like this one because of the cute behavior. I think it’s charming.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I rarely like photos of birds that include utility pole perches. But I like this one because of the cute behavior. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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