{"id":61145,"date":"2019-11-02T05:47:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=61145"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:28:48","slug":"early-morning-immature-ferruginous-hawk-in-the-west-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/11\/02\/early-morning-immature-ferruginous-hawk-in-the-west-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Immature Ferruginous Hawk In The West Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EarlyEarly morning immature Ferruginous Hawk – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t get the Brown Creeper photos I have been dreaming of yesterday but I did take lovely images of an immature Ferruginous Hawk in early morning, golden light.<\/p>\n

The hawk was perched on a new juniper fence post when I first spotted it and pointed it out.<\/p>\n

Since the temp was so cold the young bird of prey seemed sticky enough to take a nice series of photos. It even seemed to be curious about the vehicle parked on the road.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Ferruginous Hawk landing on a fence post – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1600, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

But another car came along and flushed the young Ferruginous Hawk. It didn’t fly far though, just down to the next wooden fence post. I photographed it as it landed with the mountains in the background.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Ferruginous Hawk tilting its head – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

After the young raptor landed on the second fence post it settled back down and seemed to relax in the warmth of the rising sun.<\/p>\n

The immature Ferruginous Hawk tilted its head quite often, just like young Burrowing Owls do when they are parallaxing.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Ferruginous Hawk with its bill wide open – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

When the immature Ferruginous opened its bill like this I thought perhaps it was getting ready to expel a pellet. They sure can open their bills wide.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Ferruginous Hawk preening on a fence post – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

For a bit the immature Ferruginous Hawk preened its feathers but still kept an eye on what was going on around it. After it finished preening it roused…<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Ferruginous Hawk letting poop fly – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

And then let some poop fly.<\/p>\n

I missed the shots of the young Ferruginous Hawk<\/span><\/a> lifting off because when I turned around to see if there were any cars coming up the gravel road the young buteo took flight.<\/p>\n

I was excited to spot a late Hermit Thrush yesterday morning high up in the Stansbury Mountains and I was even able to take some photos of it while it was out in the open and I took a few with a Brown Creeper in the background. Photos to come at a later date.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I didn’t get the Brown Creeper photos I have been dreaming of yesterday but I did take lovely images of an immature Ferruginous Hawk in early morning, golden light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,1069,1316,358,26,1314],"tags":[970,5552,4268,2497,4098,6692,4620,898,2092,7017,4169,6306,4067,4123,2670,6733,4375,4019,153,7910,7909,8917,4193],"class_list":["post-61145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-ferruginous-hawks","category-stansbury-mountains-utah","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-autumn","tag-bill","tag-buteo-regalis","tag-buteos","tag-desert","tag-early-morning-light","tag-fall","tag-fence-post","tag-ferruginous-hawk","tag-foothills","tag-hawks","tag-head","tag-immature","tag-landing","tag-light-morph","tag-open","tag-poop","tag-preening-2","tag-raptors","tag-tilting","tag-wide","tag-wooden-post","tag-young"],"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