{"id":41701,"date":"2016-09-04T05:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=41701"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:07:51","slug":"adult-red-tailed-hawk-with-an-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/09\/04\/adult-red-tailed-hawk-with-an-ant\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Red-tailed Hawk With An Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red-tailedRed-tailed Hawk and an ant – Nikon D810, f9, 1\/640, ISO 400, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

On my last trip up to Montana and Idaho I photographed a very cooperative adult Red-tailed Hawk in Beaverhead County, Montana<\/a><\/span> who had a full crop and was perched on a fence post along the road.<\/p>\n

I processed the image in the post I linked to above on my lap top while I was still in Montana.<\/p>\n

I don’t delete anything but the worst images while I am on camping trips because I don’t really trust the screen on my lap top as far as sharpness and detail go.<\/p>\n

Sometimes after processing an image to post while I am on a trip I send the processed image(s) to my phone and tablet by Bluetooth because they have higher resolutions and even though the screens are smaller I can see details and sharpness better.<\/p>\n

I can’t do that with all the images that I take on a trip because it would take too much time so I wait until I get home to go through them all.<\/p>\n

Recently I finished going through the images from that last trip and deleted the bad ones plus I took a closer look at the ones I will keep and this photo made me laugh when I brought it up on my large monitor at home.<\/p>\n

At the time I created this image I didn’t realize that when I took this portrait of the adult Red-tailed Hawk<\/span><\/a> that I also photographed an ant. Can you see it?<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

At the time I created this image I didn’t realize that when I took this portrait of the adult Red-tailed Hawk that I also photographed an ant. Can you see it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167011,"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":[1513,27,12,449],"tags":[4004,4515,4170,2497,4142,1139,5409,4033,4169,2237,4104,4046,153,5201,4209],"class_list":["post-41701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beaverhead-county-montana","category-avian","category-montana","category-red-tailed-hawks","tag-adult","tag-ant","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-buteos","tag-close-up","tag-crop","tag-full-crop","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-montana","tag-perched","tag-portrait","tag-raptors","tag-red-tail-hawk","tag-red-tailed-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