{"id":42236,"date":"2016-09-26T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=42236"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:37:36","slug":"autumn-swainsons-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/09\/26\/autumn-swainsons-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Swainson’s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Intermediate<\/a>Intermediate morph Swainson’s Hawk staring at me – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
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Yesterday I wrote that fall is the time of the year that I say a fond farewell to Swainson’s Hawks<\/a><\/span> and that I look forward to seeing Rough-legged Hawks and not long after I posted I was out the door to go out into the field for the first time in more than a week.<\/p>\n

Mid-morning I found a perched intermediate morph Swainson’s Hawk in Box Elder County<\/span><\/a> and was delighted when it didn’t fly off immediately.<\/p>\n

However, the mosquitoes in that particular area made it very difficult to photograph the hawk, there must have been a horde of 300 of them waiting for just the right time to bite me. I even had to spit one out because somehow the horrible thing had gotten into my mouth.\u00a0 Nasty bugs! I will be glad to see colder weather just to get rid of those blood-suckers.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll photograph another Swainson’s Hawk before they all leave for South America and maybe I won’t but I am glad this one gave me the chance to photograph it.<\/p>\n

Life is 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":"

Mid-morning I found a perched intermediate morph Swainson’s Hawk in Box Elder County and was delighted when it didn’t fly off immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42233,"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":[27,1148,206,26],"tags":[4004,2663,4200,7837,4033,4169,2386,5045,9873,4104,153,4034,4427],"class_list":["post-42236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-swainson-hawks","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-buteo-swainsoni","tag-hackberry","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-utah","tag-intermediate-morph","tag-netleaf-hackberry","tag-perched","tag-raptors","tag-swainsons-hawk","tag-tree"],"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