{"id":22829,"date":"2014-03-24T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=22829"},"modified":"2014-03-24T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:05:09","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-hunting-voles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/red-tailed-hawk-hunting-voles\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk Hunting Voles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January I spent a few days with this adult Red-tail as it was hunting voles from power poles in Tooele County.\u00a0 Those blasted poles and wires are a real problem for the photographer.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Here the bird is taking off after a vole in the grass and snow.\u00a0 I could easily have removed the insulator and wire but\u00a0the posture of the bird and its position in the frame screams for a perch behind it so I\u00a0reluctantly left\u00a0them in.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, wire removed, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0I got several sharp shots as the hawk mostly glided from its lofty perch but this time it missed the vole so it came back to the poles and tried again.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On\u00a0its next effort it was successful, though it was quite far away when it came out of the grasses with a vole.<\/p>\n

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\"red-tailed<\/a>\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D, 100-400 @ 400mm, wire removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed what I believe to be the same hawk hunting from these poles for most of a week.\u00a0 This was one of my favorite take-off shots of the bird as it left a pole, even though I had to remove a wire to appreciate the image.<\/p>\n

I still struggle with the ethics of removing background elements such as power lines from an image, even when it’s disclosed.\u00a0 At some point I may end up deleting images like that but I’m not there yet.<\/p>\n

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

In January I spent a few days with this adult Red-tail as it was hunting voles from power poles in Tooele County. Those blasted poles and wires are a real problem for the photographer.<\/p>\n

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