{"id":94872,"date":"2021-02-13T05:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=94872"},"modified":"2021-02-13T06:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:02:48","slug":"recently-fledged-red-tailed-hawk-learning-the-ropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/13\/recently-fledged-red-tailed-hawk-learning-the-ropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Fledged Red-tailed Hawk Learning The Ropes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red-tail breeding season approaches and I’m more than ready for it.<\/p>\n

As I sit here stuck in the house day after day in anticipation of forecast storms that always seem to peter out my thoughts go to early breeding birds and photo ops. Magpies have already begun refurbishing their nests and some of the raptors won’t be too far behind, including Red-tailed Hawks.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted other photos of this recently fledged red-tail and ‘his’ sibling in the past but this one is new to Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d been following this youngster and his sibling all spring but this was the first time I’d seen either bird out of the nest. It’s very possible, even likely, that this was the morning they fledged. Both were extremely awkward and ungainly and could barely fly. Whenever they tried they were like misguided missiles. I watched as one of them crash landed on the side of an almost vertical cliff.<\/p>\n

This guy was practicing his perching skills and believe me he needed the practice. He simply could not stay on the old sagebrush stump without teetering and falling off, no matter how often he tried. But he was determined so he made the attempt multiple times. When he eventually had some modest success he wandered off, apparently to look for another challenge.<\/p>\n

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As I type this at 4:30 AM another impressive-looking storm is on our doorstep here in northern Utah. I could tolerate the endless overcast days that keep me from photographing birds if only we’d get some significant moisture, preferably snow, out of one or more of them. We need it desperately.<\/p>\n

Maybe this storm will be the exception but I say that every time one approaches, only to be disappointed. .<\/p>\n

Ron.<\/p>\n

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Red-tail breeding season approaches and I’m more than ready for it.<\/p>\n

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