{"id":42980,"date":"2016-10-23T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=42980"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:54:13","slug":"juvenile-northern-goshawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/23\/juvenile-northern-goshawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Northern Goshawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably more of a birder’s post than a photographer’s post. But dammit,\u00a0I was excited to see this hawk!<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42983\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/23\/juvenile-northern-goshawk\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1476783378","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"1250","shutter_speed":"0.0008","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/northern-goshawk-9286b-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 1250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I photographed this juvenile Northern Goshawk five days ago in Utah’s Stansbury Mountains. It was on the far side of a\u00a0large canyon and the bird was so far away it looked like a small white dot against the shaded\u00a0canyon wall to the naked eye.\u00a0If Mia\u00a0hadn’t spotted it\u00a0while I was driving I’d\u00a0have never known it was there. The bird was in deep shade but with those light colors it stood out well so I fired off a few shots for ID purposes. Notice that beautiful long accipiter tail\u00a0meant to provide maneuverability as it chases prey\u00a0through\u00a0thick forests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The hawk was so far away that I’ve cropped this\u00a0photo to only 15% of the original image (3\u00a0MP of the original\u00a020 MP) in order to give us a closer look at the bird. Such a drastic crop of an image taken at ISO 1250 will obviously produce some noise and be lacking in detail but given the circumstances I was quite pleased with the performance of my gear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was only the second time I’ve photographed a Goshawk and the first time the images were so\u00a0bloody awful\u00a0I probably deleted them. They’re rare to start with and I don’t spend a lot of time in their preferred\u00a0habitat so it’s truly a\u00a0banner day when I see one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since I finally got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/golden-eagle-in-flight-with-blooming-rabbitbrush-in-the-background\/\" target=\"_blank\">an image of a Golden Eagle I like a lot<\/a> I suspect the Goshawk\u00a0may become my new nemesis species. And it will likely remain so until I get a photo of one much better than this but\u00a0on this occasion I was happy to just <em>see<\/em> the bird. The photo is a bonus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably more of a birder’s post than a photographer’s post. 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