{"id":18467,"date":"2013-09-17T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=18467"},"modified":"2013-09-17T04:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:09:51","slug":"swainsons-hawk-in-a-colorful-rustic-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/swainsons-hawk-in-a-colorful-rustic-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Swainson’s Hawk In A Colorful, Rustic Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning (early, very early)\u00a0we headed north looking for raptors and even ended up in Idaho for a while!\u00a0 We found good numbers of Ferruginous and Red-tailed Hawks, a few American Kestrels and Turkey Vultures and\u00a0one Prairie Falcon.\u00a0 But this juvenile Swainson’s Hawk was our most cooperative subject, partly because it chose such a colorful setting.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a01\/1000, f\/10, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It was perched on an old, rustic fence post with a mixture of golden fall colors and third crop alfalfa and other green crops\u00a0in the lower\u00a0background with layers of blue and white up top.\u00a0 I enjoy the colors and the relaxed\u00a0posture of the hawk (but that changed very quickly, as you will see).<\/p>\n

I was photographing this bird alongside a rural road with intermittent traffic.\u00a0 The occasional car or pickup passing by at relatively high speeds didn’t faze the hawk in the least so I was set up for perched shots, not expecting the hawk to take off.\u00a0 In fact for this image I’d switched to f\/10 to try to get as much of the angled fence as sharp as possible, thus reducing my shutter speed.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0I heard yet\u00a0another vehicle\u00a0approaching fast\u00a0from behind (I was off the road in the barrow pit) I assumed it wouldn’t disturb the bird.<\/p>\n

I was wrong…<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The vehicle turned out to be a huge, noisy tractor-trailer and the Swainson’s didn’t like it a bit.\u00a0 Thankfully I’d already switched back to f\/7.1 for more shutter speed but I was shooting vertically to get more of the fence and post in the frame so I clipped or cut off the wings in most of the take-off shots.\u00a0 Here I barely avoided clipping the wing but the hawk is too tight in the frame at left.<\/p>\n

I suspect that it may look like I’ve increased the saturation on these images but I haven’t (all I did was crop and sharpen).\u00a0 The light was early and warm and the colors are natural.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning (early, very early) we headed north looking for raptors and even ended up in Idaho for a while! We found good numbers of Ferruginous and Red-tailed Hawks, a few American Kestrels and Turkey Vultures and one Prairie Falcon. But this juvenile Swainson’s Hawk was our most cooperative subject, partly because it chose such a colorful setting.<\/p>\n

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