{"id":50230,"date":"2017-07-26T04:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=50230"},"modified":"2017-07-26T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:40:11","slug":"juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-the-lone-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-the-lone-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk – The Lone Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A one out of three survivor rate sure isn’t as high as I hoped for but I do\u00a0think this one’s going to make it.<\/p>\n

Four days ago I went looking for any survivors of the original three young Red-tailed Hawks that had been blown out of their nest by severe winds many\u00a0weeks ago. Readers will remember that we found one of the three as road kill\u00a0and originally\u00a0I had high hopes for the other two. But before our camping trip to Montana April Olson of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah had let me know that she noticed one of the two youngsters struggling with a wing issue so she and others captured it and discovered that it had a shattered wing. They took it\u00a0to WRCNU for possible rehab but the wing was so badly damaged there was nothing they could do so it had to be euthanized.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that it\u00a0was a difficult loss for all of us.<\/p>\n

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Because of our camping trip I hadn’t been to the area of the original blown-down nest for a while but four days ago I visited again and was delighted to find the lone survivor doing very well. He (or she, I don’t know the sex) was perched on part of a large metal corral but some distance from the original nest site. I can’t tell you how happy I was to see him doing well after the loss of both of his siblings that I’d followed for so long.<\/p>\n

His perch wasn’t the best for photography because he was partially obscured by a metal\u00a0fence rail\u00a0in front of him. But after a while he seemed to take pity on my photography frustrations…<\/p>\n

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so he took off…<\/p>\n

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giving me a few flight shots in the process…<\/p>\n

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and headed for another nearby part of the corral…<\/p>\n

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where I had an unobstructed view. The light in these shots is very warm because it was early\u00a0morning and there was lots of moisture and haze in the area to the east.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a “perspective shot” taken soon after he landed (but at a different angle) to give you a feel for the layout of the setting.<\/p>\n