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<\/p>\nFor the past three days I’ve been able to observe a variety of different types of prey exchanges between adult and juvenile Swainson’s Hawks.<\/p>\n
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\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 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 Just prior to this exchange, photographed yesterday morning near Monida, Montana, two juvenile siblings waited impatiently on various perches for over half an hour for one of the parents to bring in food. Eventually an adult (the bird on the right) landed on this post with a vole that was obviously meant for one of the young birds. The adult bit the head of the vole several times to make sure it was dead then waited for one of the two young birds to come in and claim the vole.<\/p>\n In this shot the juvenile on the left is coming in to pounce on the vole as the adult is preparing to leave. But soon after the youngster landed on the post the vole dropped to the ground so it had to drop down to retrieve it before its sibling horned in on the action.<\/p>\n Hopefully I’ll be able to post more of this sequence after I get home. Right now, while camping in Montana, my internet access is seriously inadequate.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n PS – An update on the Barn Owl that was hung up in barbed wire yesterday. The Montana Raptor Center reports that it has soft tissue damage in one wing\u00a0but no broken bones. Only time will tell if it heals well enough to be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the past three days I’ve been able to observe a variety of different types of prey exchanges between adult and juvenile Swainson’s Hawks.<\/p>\n