{"id":20517,"date":"2013-12-08T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=20517"},"modified":"2013-12-08T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T12:06:00","slug":"a-red-tailed-hawk-and-opportunities-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/08\/a-red-tailed-hawk-and-opportunities-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red-tailed Hawk And Opportunities Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk put on quite a show for me but for a variety of reasons\u00a0I blew many of the chances I had with it.<\/p>\n

It all began with a dispute\u00a0between this bird and\u00a0a Rough-legged hawk but as that little drama played out I was fiddling with a memory card that had filled up at an inopportune time (yes, I had forgotten to format it – I hate making rookie mistakes!).\u00a0 Then the red-tail flew off to a nearby hill.<\/p>\n

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\"red-tailed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It perched on\u00a0the hill in several different places but this is the best look I could get at it while it was on the ground.\u00a0 When it would lift off or land\u00a0I messed up on most of those shots because my focus locked on to the\u00a0vegetation just beneath the hawk instead of on the bird itself.\u00a0\u00a0 Or there was a piece of vegetation in front of the bird.\u00a0 Or the hawk was looking away from me.\u00a0 Or,… the list goes on.<\/p>\n

Once, a harrier followed the hawk in and\u00a0I believe there was actual contact between the two birds just after the red-tail landed but my focus was off on those shots too.\u00a0 Not my best day in the field…<\/p>\n

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\"red-tailed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But I did get this shot\u00a0as the hawk took off down the hill.\u00a0 I like the\u00a0flight pose that shows off the feather groupings and intricate plumage patterns and I think the vegetation at the bottom anchors the hawk in the frame.<\/p>\n

Every bird photographer has bad days in the field when opportunities present themselves but you miss them due to your own poor choices,\u00a0outright mistakes or just bad luck.\u00a0 I just hope I’ve used up my allotment of those days for a while.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Two days ago this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk put on quite a show for me but for a variety of reasons I blew many of the chances I had with it.<\/p>\n

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