{"id":45373,"date":"2017-01-24T06:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=45373"},"modified":"2017-01-24T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:43:28","slug":"a-frosty-rough-legged-hawk-at-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/a-frosty-rough-legged-hawk-at-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Frosty Rough-legged Hawk At Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rough-legged Hawk is an arctic species but even so this one must have been uncomfortably cold.<\/p>\n

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\"\"1\/250, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We\u00a0found\u00a0the bird just before dawn\u00a0a week ago where it had apparently spent the night atop a metal structure at the entrance to Antelope Island State Park. It was an absolutely frigid morning and both the perch and the hawk are covered with frost.<\/p>\n

This image was taken only seconds after the sun rose over the nearby Wasatch Mountains and the warming light hit the bird. The\u00a0hawk is looking directly into the sun as if to greet the source of\u00a0its warmth after such a long, cold night.<\/p>\n

For me the frost on the metal softens some of the disagreeable aspects of the unnatural perch and the frost also seems to tie bird and perch together\u00a0as one somehow. Their similar color probably contributes to that effect on me.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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The Rough-legged Hawk is an arctic species but even so this one must have been uncomfortably cold.<\/p>\n

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