{"id":42114,"date":"2016-09-12T05:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=42114"},"modified":"2016-09-12T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:57:07","slug":"ferruginous-hawk-in-flight-with-nesting-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/ferruginous-hawk-in-flight-with-nesting-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferruginous Hawk In Flight With Nesting Material"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mystery continues as to what this nesting material actually is but I think I have a pretty good guess.<\/p>\n

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I photographed this light morph Ferruginous Hawk in low light\u00a0this past summer in Montana’s Centennial Valley. I watched the bird as it left its power pole perch, flew down into a pasture, retrieved something from the ground and then landed back on the pole with it. A few minutes later it launched from the pole again and that’s when I took this shot.<\/p>\n

In previous posts of other images of this hawk I’ve speculated about what this material\u00a0might actually be and I now believe it may be a piece of cow dung. Ferruginous Hawks are known to commonly line their nests with it, there were cows in the area and to me it looks like what we see is the underside of cow dung where it had made contact with the soil.<\/p>\n

Some may question the angle of flight of this bird and think the image needs clockwise rotation. But I know this to be\u00a0reasonably close to the actual flight angle because…<\/p>\n

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in the first version of the image I had removed a power line that I know was fairly close to level. The bird had actually dived down at an angle\u00a0from its perch and landed on the ground some distance away. I never did know where the actual nest was (if it had one at all).<\/p>\n

Ferruginous means “rust-colored” (ferrous refers to iron)\u00a0alluding to the reddish colors on the back, wings and legs of light-morph birds so I enjoy seeing those namesake colors in this regal hawk.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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The mystery continues as to what this nesting material actually is but I think I have a pretty good guess.<\/p>\n

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