{"id":59877,"date":"2019-08-31T04:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=59877"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:46:06","slug":"photographing-juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/08\/31\/photographing-juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent 26 minutes yesterday photographing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk siblings and had a blast watching them preen, lift off, flying, scratching, resting and landing. There was one adult nearby keeping an eye on them but I spent most of my time focusing on the young hawks because they were closer and far more active.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen many hatch year Red-tailed Hawks this year so when I found and pointed out these two yesterday I was more than happy to take photos of them as they went about their morning.<\/p>\n

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I picked some of these juvenile Red-tailed Hawk photos because the poses were funny, some because of the action they show and some just because I enjoyed viewing them. I liked the lichen-covered cliffs the young raptors were on, the puffy clouds that were in some photos plus how a few of them included blooming sage. Photographing young Red-tailed Hawks<\/span><\/a> is always a joy and these two raptors didn’t disappoint.<\/p>\n

I photographed the young hawks using my Nikon D500 and Nikkor 500mm VR lens, most were with the 1.4x TC attached, I used ISO settings from 250 to 640 and my aperture settings varied between f6.3 to f10.<\/em><\/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<\/div>

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I spent 26 minutes yesterday photographing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk siblings and had a blast watching them preen, lift off, flying, scratching, resting and landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,449,1731,26,773],"tags":[6098,4170,2497,7619,4122,5381,4169,2386,4071,4123,3291,4282,8301,8300,4019,7620,153,5414,4209,4156,2817,4541,6285,5498,4193],"class_list":["post-59877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-red-tailed-hawks","category-summit-county-utah","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-blooming","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-buteos","tag-fanned","tag-flying","tag-hatch-year","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-utah","tag-juvenile","tag-landing","tag-lichen","tag-lift-off","tag-photograph","tag-photographing","tag-preening-2","tag-puffy-clouds","tag-raptors","tag-red-tail","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-resting","tag-sage","tag-scratching","tag-tail","tag-wings","tag-young"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/red-tailed-hawk-juvenile-summit-county-mia-mcpherson-7396.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-fzL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6705,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/12\/04\/photographing-red-tailed-hawk-juvies-on-the-wing\/","url_meta":{"origin":59877,"position":0},"title":"Photographing Red-tailed Hawk Juveniles On The Wing","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"These are a just few images that I have edited taken since August of Red-tailed Hawk juveniles on Antelope Island State Park.","rel":"","context":"In "Antelope Island State Park"","block_context":{"text":"Antelope Island State Park","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/locations\/utah\/antelope-island-state-park\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Red-tailed juvenile landing on a rock outcropping, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-juvenile-landing-mia-mcpherson-9128.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-juvenile-landing-mia-mcpherson-9128.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-juvenile-landing-mia-mcpherson-9128.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-juvenile-landing-mia-mcpherson-9128.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6053,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/09\/05\/juvenile-red-tailed-hawk-in-landing-pose\/","url_meta":{"origin":59877,"position":1},"title":"Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk In Landing Pose","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"September 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I had fun yesterday photographing this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) as it perched on rocks and hunted for prey. 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