1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, not baited, set up or called in, canvas added, wires removed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nMost of the raptors in the area were hunting from power poles and this dark morph Ferrug was no exception so the only chance for acceptable\u00a0images was in flight or during take-off.\u00a0 And this one added a little drama to the shot by seeming to cuss us out as it took off.<\/p>\n
I’m always happy to encounter the dark morph.\u00a0 Sibley says that fewer than 10% of Ferruginous Hawks are of the dark phase and from what I’ve seen of them in the field that number seems to be about right.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week, partially in an effort to get away from the aggravations of the blog hosting problems I’d been having, I decided to make the extra long drive to extreme northern Utah in a quest for Swainson’s Hawks. We found quite a few and a delightful bonus was a plethora of Ferruginous Hawks in the same area.<\/p>\n
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