{"id":28955,"date":"2015-01-14T06:18:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=28955"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:03:31","slug":"rough-legged-hawk-beautiful-in-flight-goofy-looking-perched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/rough-legged-hawk-beautiful-in-flight-goofy-looking-perched\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough-legged Hawk – Beautiful In Flight, Goofy-looking Perched"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rough-legged Hawk is a true arctic species so images of them in a frosty and\u00a0snowy setting\u00a0can seem appropriate and appealing.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this one soon after it took off from a sign along the causeway to Antelope Island on 1\/3\/13. It was very cold, there was snow on the ground and the vegetation along the causeway was covered with hoarfrost as you can see at the bottom of the frame.<\/p>\n

But even a classy, elegant bird like this one can transform from the sublime to the ridiculous.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the same bird eight minutes earlier before it took off from the sign.\u00a0 Notice that its head is upside down (the curved beak is pointing upward).\u00a0 I suspect that it was parallaxing though I don’t know that for sure.\u00a0 If so it’s something I rarely see\u00a0to this extreme\u00a0in buteos though I’ve often seen it in young owls. (here’s a link to a Burrowing Owl youngster parallaxing <\/a>if you’re interested).<\/p>\n

Whatever the hawk was doing I was thoroughly amused as I watched it through my lens.<\/p>\n

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

The Rough-legged Hawk is a true arctic species so images of them in a frosty and snowy setting can seem appropriate and appealing.<\/p>\n

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