{"id":13416,"date":"2014-01-14T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2024-02-04T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T16:07:06","slug":"red-shouldered-hawk-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/01\/14\/red-shouldered-hawk-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-shouldered Hawk In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-120498 size-full\" title=\"Red-shouldered Hawk in flight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405.jpg\" alt=\"Red-shouldered Hawk in flight, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida\" width=\"850\" height=\"607\" data-id=\"13415\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20850%20607%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-600x428.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405-800x571.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Red-shouldered Hawk in flight &#8211; Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/800, ISO 320, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 330mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Red-shouldered Hawk photo was taken in Florida in November of 2008 just after the hawk lifted off from an old snag near a Great Blue Heron I had been photographing. This image shows the &#8220;red shoulders&#8221; very nicely. I wouldn&#8217;t have expected to find a Red-shouldered Hawk at the tip of the north beach of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofftdesoto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fort De Soto<\/span><\/a> near the sand dunes because it isn&#8217;t the kind of habitat I normally saw them in but it goes to show that keeping your eyes open for the unexpected can pay off.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/red-shouldered-hawk-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Red-shouldered Hawk photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Red-shouldered Hawk photo was taken in Florida in November of 2008 just after the hawk lifted off from an old snag near a Great Blue Heron I had been photographing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,704,882],"tags":[4004,2663,4219,5229,5132,4052,4122,683,4033,4169,3184,4282,4378,8809,4218,4235,4018,8453,8808],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-red-shouldered-hawks","tag-adult","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-buteo-lineatus","tag-coast","tag-coastal","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-habitat-2","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-florida","tag-lift-off","tag-morning","tag-red-shoulders","tag-red-shouldered-hawk","tag-sand-dunes","tag-sky","tag-snag","tag-unexpected"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Red-shouldered-hawk-flight-mia-mcpherson-4405.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-3uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19501,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/02\/05\/a-red-shouldered-hawk-surveying-fort-de-sotos-north-beach\/","url_meta":{"origin":13416,"position":0},"title":"Red-shouldered Hawk Surveying Fort De Soto&#8217;s North Beach","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This Red-shouldered Hawk was just a few feet away from a tidal lagoon and just yards away from the Gulf when I photographed it in November of 2008.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Perched Red-shouldered Hawk, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-florida-mia-mcpherson-4371.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-florida-mia-mcpherson-4371.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, 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McPherson","date":"September 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"There are five recognized subspecies of Red-shouldered Hawks with the Florida Red-shouldered Hawks having the palest heads and plumage. I believe this Red-shouldered Hawk adult is from the Florida race, Buteo lineatus extimus.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Adult Red-shouldered Hawk perched in a pine tree at Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8749,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/06\/30\/and-we-have-lift-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":13416,"position":3},"title":"And We Have Lift Off!","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted to share some bird lift off images today so I rounded up a few that showed different styles of lift offs.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antelope Island State Park&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antelope Island State Park","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/antelope-island-state-park\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Swainson's Hawk - Squat and push lift off","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/swainsons-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-2621.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/swainsons-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-2621.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/swainsons-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-2621.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/swainsons-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-2621.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64708,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/02\/19\/adult-red-shouldered-hawk-in-dappled-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":13416,"position":4},"title":"Adult Red-shouldered Hawk In Dappled Light","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this adult Red-shouldered Hawk while walking around at John Chesnut Sr. Park in Florida way back in January of 2009.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Red-shouldered Hawk adult in dappled light, John Chesnut Sr. Park, Pinellas County, Florida","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-perched-canopy-mia-mcpherson-8015.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-perched-canopy-mia-mcpherson-8015.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-perched-canopy-mia-mcpherson-8015.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-perched-canopy-mia-mcpherson-8015.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7246,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/25\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvenile-small-in-the-frame\/","url_meta":{"origin":13416,"position":5},"title":"Red-shouldered Hawk Juvenile &#8211; 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