{"id":32898,"date":"2015-07-24T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=32898"},"modified":"2015-07-24T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T11:38:21","slug":"dark-morph-swainsons-hawk-screaming-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/dark-morph-swainsons-hawk-screaming-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Morph Swainson’s Hawk Screaming In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I believe this dark morph Swainson’s Hawk was communicating with its mate as it screamed soon after take-off. Just\u00a0 before this bird took off both hawks of the apparently mated pair were perched next to each other on a power pole near the Centennial Valley\u00a0and they made quite a contrast because the second bird was a light morph. I’ll post images of both of them when I return home in a few days.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's\u00a01\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

The light-colored bird launched first and then this dark bird took off in the same direction. I was able to get 23 shots of it in flight and in 14 of them it was calling out. I moderately underexposed all of them so I had to bring this one back up during processing. I was disappointed that the light angle and brow ridge prevented me from getting a catch light in the eye but there’s a little color there to partially make up for it.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

PS – After three days of trying, last evening I was finally able to get some images of one of the Great Horned Owls on the farm. I have better ones but after all that effort it still feels good to have had some success. If they’re any good (at this point I’ve only seen them on my camera screen) I’ll post one of them soon.<\/p>\n

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I believe this dark morph Swainson’s Hawk was communicating with its mate as it screamed soon after take-off.<\/p>\n

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