{"id":61903,"date":"2019-12-07T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=61903"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:42:43","slug":"immature-coopers-hawk-appearing-just-a-bit-goofy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/12\/07\/immature-coopers-hawk-appearing-just-a-bit-goofy\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Cooper’s Hawk Appearing Just A Bit Goofy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes raptors can look deadly serious and intense, especially when they are watching, diving on or consuming prey but they can appear to look a little goofy too. I’ve found that the goofiest and funniest images I take of raptors are from when I photograph them preening.<\/p>\n

To see these photos larger in a slide show just click on the first image.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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I spotted an immature Cooper’s Hawk on the first day of October this year high in a mountain canyon that spent quite a bit of time preening while perched on an old wooden fence rail.<\/p>\n

The young hawk stretched, preened, and scratched which gave me time to take a ton of photos of it. I couldn’t resist laughing a few times as I took photo after photo of the young Cooper’s scratching its chin, looking at its talons, preening its neck feathers and exposing its nictitating membrane.<\/p>\n

I took so many photos that I still<\/em> haven’t gone through them all more than two months later.<\/p>\n

Of course the goofiness I see is just the young Cooper’s Hawk doing what birds do and how I interpret what I see.<\/p>\n

Not only do I look for birds everywhere I go, I also look for humor in nature.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Cooper\u2019s Hawk photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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