{"id":27441,"date":"2014-10-21T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=27441"},"modified":"2014-10-21T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:12:39","slug":"east-canyon-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/east-canyon-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"East Canyon Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains looking for raptors and other birds.\u00a0 I had my best luck with Red-tailed Hawks…<\/p>\n

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including this one near East Canyon Reservoir.\u00a0 The hawk was perched above me and I don’t much like this angle on the subject unless the bird takes off, which it did.\u00a0 The sky color in these shots is intensely blue but that’s often the case at these elevations (6000′) in the morning.<\/p>\n

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The wing position in these first two images…<\/p>\n

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is almost identical but the bird has moved forward almost two feet in the interim.\u00a0 I find that the frame rate of my 7D is very often perfectly timed with the wing-beat speed of buteos as they take off.\u00a0 I wonder if I’ll get a little more variety in wing position when I get the new Cannon 7D Mark ll when it is released in a few days (Canon has moved up the release date from November 29 to October 30 and mine has been on order for weeks).\u00a0 The Mark ll has a burst rate of 10 frames\/sec as opposed to 8 frames\/sec for the older 7D.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0I did get one image I liked with the wings down.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0I cropped this one vertically to include the sagebrush at the bottom of the frame.\u00a0 The hawk then circled above me a couple of times…<\/p>\n

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and then landed at the top of the hill again but this time much further away.\u00a0 Here the bird is just about to fold its wings after touch down.<\/p>\n

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

I spent yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains looking for raptors and other birds. I had my best luck with Red-tailed Hawks. <\/p>\n

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