{"id":29837,"date":"2015-03-01T06:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=29837"},"modified":"2015-03-01T06:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T13:18:49","slug":"rough-legged-hawk-and-a-bit-of-a-minor-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/rough-legged-hawk-and-a-bit-of-a-minor-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough-legged Hawk (and a bit of a minor mystery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I see something in my images that I can’t explain it piques my interest. Even when it’s something relatively minor.<\/p>\n

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I photographed this Rough-legged Hawk soon after it took off from a power pole three weeks ago in Tooele County. The origin of the white blob on its left foot had me stumped. I have a half-dozen shots of the bird in flight but only two of them show the mystery “substance”.<\/p>\n

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Even a large crop of the same image to show more detail\u00a0didn’t solve the mystery for me. The only thing I\u00a0could think of is the possibility that the bird stepped in fresh excreta on the perch but in other shots<\/a> the perch looks clean and this bird defecated prior to takeoff and that excreta\u00a0clearly missed the perch. Besides, the\u00a0perfectly round blob\u00a0didn’t look like poop to me.<\/p>\n

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\"rough-legged<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0I can’t see the blob in most of the other images of the hawk in flight.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, in preparing this post I decided to look more carefully\u00a0at the second image that shows the white blob (I clipped the wings in this shot)\u00a0and in\u00a0that one the light and view are just\u00a0different enough to make me think the blob is likely\u00a0nothing more than the bulbous end of one of the toes with glaring light on it (perhaps it has also been stained with excreta or something else light-colored).<\/p>\n

Much ado about nothing, I know.\u00a0\u00a0But\u00a0I enjoy clearing up these little mysteries, even when the apparent\u00a0solution is as mundane as this one.<\/p>\n

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

When I see something in my images that I can’t explain it piques my interest. Even when it’s something relatively minor.<\/p>\n

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