{"id":7246,"date":"2013-01-25T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2024-02-04T07:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T14:27:46","slug":"red-shouldered-hawk-juvenile-small-in-the-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/25\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvenile-small-in-the-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-shouldered Hawk Juvenile &#8211; Small In The Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-120462 size-full\" title=\"Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk \u2013 Small in frame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk \u2013 Small in frame at Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk &#8211; Small in frame &#8211; Sawgrass County Park<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five days ago I posted a <a title=\"Small in the Frame \u2013 Bald Eagle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/20\/small-in-the-frame-bald-eagle\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bald Eagle<\/span><\/a> image where the eagle was small in the frame and explained that I felt that the setting was as important as the subject. I also feel that way about this image of a Red-shouldered Hawk juvenile perched in a tree. I photographed this young Red-shouldered Hawk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinellascounty.org\/park\/16_sawgrass.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sawgrass County Park<\/span><\/a> in Pinellas County, Florida a few years ago as the early morning light lit up the grasses and Bamboo in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The subject doesn&#8217;t always need to fill the frame to have impact and appeal, sometimes the background or habitat has as much appeal as the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/red-shouldered-hawk-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Red-shouldered Hawk photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five days ago I posted a Bald Eagle image where the eagle was small in the frame and explained that I felt that the setting was as important as the subject, I also feel that way about this image of a Red-shouldered Hawk juvenile perched in a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,882,883,76],"tags":[8806,4219,2497,6692,37,4109,4033,4169,3184,4067,4071,4104,153,4218,4217,721,165,9464,4076],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-red-shouldered-hawks","category-sawgrass-county-park","category-small-in-the-frame","tag-bamboo","tag-buteo-lineatus","tag-buteos","tag-early-morning-light","tag-florida-2","tag-grasses","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-florida","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-perched","tag-raptors","tag-red-shouldered-hawk","tag-sawgrass-county-park","tag-small-in-the-frame-2","tag-spring","tag-swamp","tag-trees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-juvie-mia-mcpherson-6198.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1SS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8049,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/04\/07\/a-juvenile-red-shouldered-hawk-learning-to-hunt\/","url_meta":{"origin":7246,"position":0},"title":"Juvenile 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McPherson","date":"September 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"There are five recognized subspecies of Red-shouldered Hawks with the Florida Red-shouldered Hawks having the palest heads and plumage. I believe this Red-shouldered Hawk adult is from the Florida race, Buteo lineatus extimus.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Birds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Birds","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/category\/avian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Adult Red-shouldered Hawk perched in a pine tree at Sawgrass Lake Park, Pinellas County, Florida","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/red-shouldered-hawk-adult-thumbnail-mia-mcpherson-0164.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 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