{"id":10681,"date":"2013-11-17T03:50:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T10:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:30:28","slug":"a-scruffy-sub-adult-swainsons-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/11\/17\/a-scruffy-sub-adult-swainsons-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Scruffy sub-adult Swainson’s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScruffyA scruffy sub-adult Swainson’s Hawk – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 640, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 357mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend of mine said “MORE RAPTORS!” when I posted a male Red-winged Blackbird<\/a><\/span> two days ago… so here is a raptor! One very scruffy looking sub-adult Swainson’s Hawk coming right up!<\/p>\n

Seriously, I wish I understood more about molting with\u00a0many of the raptors including Swainson’s Hawk and perhaps if I ever<\/em> find some free time I will attempt to study molt patterns more closely.<\/p>\n

Yep, this Swainson’s Hawk is scruffy and ragged. It also looks shabby, frayed, tattered, and worn out and it still looks handsome to me.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Swainson\u2019s Hawk photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously, I wish I understood more about molting with many of the raptors including Swainson’s Hawk and perhaps if I ever find some free time I will attempt to study molt patterns more closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1513,27,223,12,206],"tags":[2663,4200,4052,4122,4033,4169,2312,2313,153,4362,2239,4034],"class_list":["post-10681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-centennial-valley","category-montana","category-swainson-hawks","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-buteo-swainsoni","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-molt","tag-molting","tag-raptors","tag-scruffy","tag-sub-adult","tag-swainsons-hawk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t