![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/red-tailed-hawk-1433-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"red-tailed-hawk-1433-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\n1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 200mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nshe pretty much nailed the landing.<\/p>\n
But now that she’d successfully made the landing she had another issue to deal with.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/red-tailed-hawk-1452-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"red-tailed-hawk-1452-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n
1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nHer belly and “pantaloons” were still wet. So she faced\u00a0the warming\u00a0sun, spread her wings, and dried them off in classic\u00a0hawk style. This is a pose I’ve always enjoyed in raptors.<\/p>\n
After this\u00a0she decided to show me how well she could walk\u00a0the length of that sloping\u00a0pipe (she did it several times that morning\u00a0and I posted one series previously). As you’ll see tomorrow her awkwardness and indecisiveness were interesting and entertaining to watch\u00a0but she was absolutely committed to getting it done.\u00a0However, including those images here would involve too many\u00a0photos for a single post so it’s my intention to post Part 2 tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Notice, I said “intention”. My life is kind of complicated right now and there’s quite a few images involved\u00a0so that may or may not happen. If not tomorrow, soon.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This quite young and still clumsy youngster almost seemed to enjoy showing off for me.<\/p>\n
Continue reading<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[393,334,450],"tags":[689,452,3483,145,146,190,579,451,311],"class_list":["post-50474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bathing-bird-behaviors","category-birds","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-box-elder-county","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-drying-in-the-sun","tag-fledgling","tag-flight","tag-juvenile","tag-landing","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/red-tailed-hawk-1452-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-d86","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/red-tailed-hawk-1430-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"red-tailed-hawk-1430-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/red-tailed-hawk-1432-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"red-tailed-hawk-1432-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n