{"id":7613,"date":"2012-09-09T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2012-09-09T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T01:17:13","slug":"juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/09\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve had several opportunities with a pair of Juvenile Red-tailed Hawks that like to hunt from some elevated rocks that look down over some prime\u00a0rodent habitat.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0nice for a change to find them\u00a0on natural and attractive perches rather\u00a0than telephone poles or even fence posts.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, I like a rustic\u00a0old fencepost as a perch but I do\u00a0enjoy these natural rocks for a change.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The birds scan the grasses below them for prey and if you watch their behavior and body language carefully you can anticipate\u00a0take-off.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I could tell this bird had spotted potential prey below (a vole, most likely) so I was ready to fire off a burst as it launched.\u00a0 I’m always happy when I can get a wing position like this one.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0the very next frame of the burst I got a similar\u00a0wing position as it lifted off of the rock and luck played a significant role in that fact.\u00a0 The burst rate of my\u00a0Canon 7D seems to be just about the same speed as that of the wing-beats of raptors this size as they take off,\u00a0so there was\u00a0a very good chance that the wings in both shots would be in the much less desirable horizontal position.\u00a0 Sometimes things\u00a0work out, sometimes they don’t.<\/p>\n

Observing and photographing\u00a0these two birds has been both a joyful experience and an exercise in frustration.\u00a0 When they fly down after prey they usually return to the same rock perch or to one nearby, so there are lots of opportunities to get them in flight with interesting backgrounds\u00a0but they’re right up against the side of a mountain so that background is very close, which makes locking focus on them in flight\u00a0extremely difficult.\u00a0 I have many potentially stunning images that were just a little too soft.<\/p>\n

But I\u00a0also have some that worked out so I suspect that I’ll be posting some of them in the future.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I’ve had several opportunities with a pair of Juvenile Red-tailed Hawks that like to hunt from some elevated rocks that look down over some prime\u00a0rodent habitat.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0nice for a change to find them\u00a0on natural and attractive perches rather\u00a0than telephone poles or even fence posts.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, I like a rustic\u00a0old fencepost as a perch but I do\u00a0enjoy these natural rocks for a change.   \u00a01\/8000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc (inappropriate techs for this shot, hadn’t had time to change them yet) \u00a0The birds scan the grasses below them for prey and if you watch their behavior and body language carefully you can anticipate\u00a0take-off.     \u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 640, 400 f\/4, 1.4 tc \u00a0I could tell this bird had spotted potential prey below (a vole, most likely) so I was ready to fire off a burst as it launched.\u00a0 I’m always happy when I can get a wing position like this one.     \u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 640, 400 f\/4, 1.4 tc In\u00a0the very next frame of the burst I got a similar\u00a0wing position as it lifted off of the rock and luck played a significant role in that fact.\u00a0 The burst rate of my\u00a0Canon 7D seems to be just about the same speed as that of the wing-beats of raptors this size as they take off,\u00a0so there was\u00a0a very good chance that the wings in both shots would be in the much less desirable horizontal position.\u00a0 Sometimes things\u00a0work out, sometimes they don’t. Observing and photographing\u00a0these two birds has…<\/p>\n

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