{"id":90838,"date":"2020-10-30T05:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=90838"},"modified":"2020-10-30T06:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:13:59","slug":"pale-male-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/30\/pale-male-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pale Male Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick post this morning. I slept in longer than I planned so I don’t have much time.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This past summer I photographed the palest Red-tailed Hawk I’ve ever seen, other than a leucistic red-tail I photographed several years ago. I got many shots of him taking off and in flight and five months ago I posted several of them but this one is new to my blog. While I was watching him through my lens as he was perched he looked even lighter than he does here. He appeared so pale I wasn’t even sure he was a red-tail at first.<\/p>\n

I’m calling him a male because to me he looks like one and falconer Laura Culley agrees, based in part on the thickness of his tarsi. I still refer to this bird as ‘Pale Male’ because of the famous light colored red-tail of the same name<\/a><\/span><\/span> that took up residence in New York’s Central Park for decades. The original Pale Male was one of the first red-tails known to nest on a building.<\/p>\n

Now that bird made a name for himself.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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The palest Red-tailed Hawk I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

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