{"id":20804,"date":"2013-12-20T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=20804"},"modified":"2013-12-20T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:03:52","slug":"juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-still-learning-to-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-still-learning-to-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Still Learning To Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yet another snowstorm all day\u00a0yesterday I felt the need to post something this morning\u00a0with absolutely nothing white in the background.\u00a0 This juvenile Red-tailed Hawk taking off after prey\u00a0filled the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20807\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-still-learning-to-hunt\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,690\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1346747253&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"red-tailed hawk 5064b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20807\" alt=\"red-tailed hawk 5064b ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley-400x306.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 400, 500 f\/4, canvas added, 2 twigs removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was one of my favorite Red-tails of all time.\u00a0 For several weeks it would <em>occasionally<\/em> cooperate with me as it perch-\u00a0hunted voles\u00a0from rocky outcroppings on the side of a large hill.\u00a0 Here it has just launched after spotting prey in the grasses below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The young hawk wasn&#8217;t yet a very skilled hunter and most of\u00a0its\u00a0hunting forays came up empty.\u00a0 I often wonder if it survived the following winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yet another snowstorm all day yesterday I felt the need to post something this morning with absolutely nothing white in the background.  This juvenile Red-tailed Hawk taking off after prey filled the bill.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-still-learning-to-hunt\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,334,450],"tags":[452,190,451],"class_list":["post-20804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-juvenile","tag-red-tailed-hawk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-5064b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-5py","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}