{"id":82225,"date":"2020-02-26T04:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2020-02-26T04:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:52:04","slug":"peregrine-falcon-circling-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/26\/peregrine-falcon-circling-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine Falcon Circling Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"

This falcon was a significant milestone for me.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I found him late in the afternoon of March 14, 2014 in the Bicknell Bottoms area of Wayne County, Utah as he circled a dead Cinnamon Teal he’d been feeding on.<\/p>\n

This photo could be a little sharper but I like the ventral lighting on the bird and the angle of his head that allowed eye contact and indicates he was banking in flight rather than flying high overhead (birds nearly always keep their heads level in flight).<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know the sex of this bird for sure but I’m calling it a male because of the color of his legs. Except for some of his toes that are covered with Cinnamon Teal blood the bare skin of his legs and toes is intensely yellow which suggests the bird is a male. During breeding season the bare skin of males is a brighter and deeper yellow than that of females.<\/p>\n

This was a memorable bird for me because he was the first Peregrine Falcon I ever got decent flight shots of. Several years earlier I’d spent more than 10 minutes trying to photograph a Peregrine Falcon as it attacked a plastic Great Horned Owl at Farmington Bay WMA but back then my flight shot skills were so primitive that every last photo was dreadfully soft.<\/p>\n

Since that time I’d been lusting after Peregrine flight shots so I won’t soon forget this bird.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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This falcon was a significant milestone for me.<\/p>\n

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