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<\/p>\nA month ago\u00a0tomorrow this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk was hunting from the dark Farmington Canyon Complex rocks of Antelope Island.\u00a0\u00a0 It would use this elevated perch, and others like it,\u00a0to scan the grasses below for prey.<\/p>\n
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\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n I could usually tell from its behavior when it had spotted something and was about to take off after it.\u00a0 I always hope for a take-off toward me\u00a0and angled obliquely to my position instead of “dead-on head-on”.\u00a0 The worst direction is away from me of course and I’ll settle\u00a0for a fully lateral direction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Here the bird chose the slightly\u00a0less than ideal lateral direction.\u00a0 A head turn toward me would have improved the shot but for some reason this hawk was more intent on the prey than it was in pleasing the photographer.\u00a0 But I really liked the dynamic body position at take-off.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Some folks prefer the wings-up position over wings-down but I like them both.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n I thought I’d make this final image a vertical composition to show better detail on the hawk, given the flight posture.\u00a0 The last three shots are sequential images in the burst.<\/p>\n I was able to keep focus locked on the bird for several more shots but\u00a0of course the further\u00a0it flew the more it got\u00a0past me and the less desirable the angle was.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A month ago\u00a0tomorrow this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk was hunting from the dark Farmington Canyon Complex rocks of Antelope Island.\u00a0\u00a0 It would use this elevated perch, and others like it,\u00a0to scan the grasses below for prey. \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in I could usually tell from its behavior when it had spotted something and was about to take off after it.\u00a0 I always hope for a take-off toward me\u00a0and angled obliquely to my position instead of “dead-on head-on”.\u00a0 The worst direction is away from me of course and I’ll settle\u00a0for a fully lateral direction. \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in Here the bird chose the slightly\u00a0less than ideal lateral direction.\u00a0 A head turn toward me would have improved the shot but for some reason this hawk was more intent on the prey than it was in pleasing the photographer.\u00a0 But I really liked the dynamic body position at take-off. \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0Some folks prefer the wings-up position over wings-down but I like them both. \u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in I thought I’d make this final image a vertical composition to show better detail on the hawk, given the flight posture.\u00a0 The last three shots are sequential images in the…<\/p>\n![\"red](\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/red-tailed-hawk-5348-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"red")
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