{"id":89406,"date":"2020-09-11T05:58:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=89406"},"modified":"2020-09-11T06:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:21:39","slug":"rousing-dark-morph-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/rousing-dark-morph-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousing Dark Morph Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;m here, camped in a remote spot on the Montana\/Idaho border. I can see the back side of the Teton&#8217;s from here and it&#8217;s only a short drive to Montana&#8217;s Centennial Valley. So far there&#8217;s been no smoke to speak of but I hear that may change tomorrow.\u00a0Just the stars I&#8217;m seeing right now made the trip worth it.<\/p>\n<p>After setting up camp last night I had a little over an hour to look for birds.<\/p>\n<p>I found only one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"89407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/rousing-dark-morph-red-tailed-hawk\/mk2b5560-jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1599761810&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed hawk 5560 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89407 size-full\" title=\"red-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A beautiful dark morph adult Red-tailed Hawk on a power pole. It roused and then took off while I was checking my exposure on my camera screen. Figures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not confident about how this photo looks since it was processed on my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty dry up here and so far I&#8217;m not seeing many birds. Today I plan to visit the Centennial Valley and that should be telling.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;m here, camped in a remote spot on the Montana\/Idaho border.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/rousing-dark-morph-red-tailed-hawk\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89407,"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":[334,450],"tags":[24,452,555,969,451,1501],"class_list":["post-89406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-adult","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-centennial-valley","tag-dark-morph","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-rousing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MK2B5560.jpgred-tailed-hawk-5560-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ng2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89406","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=89406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}