{"id":8192,"date":"2013-04-26T03:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=8192"},"modified":"2025-12-30T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:25:26","slug":"tale-of-a-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/04\/26\/tale-of-a-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tale Of A Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-166214 size-full\" title=\"Perched adult Red-tailed Hawk in Tooele County, West Desert, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-adult-mia-mcpherson-8936.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-adult-mia-mcpherson-8936.jpg\" alt=\"Perched adult Red-tailed Hawk in Tooele County, West Desert, Utah\" 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https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-adult-mia-mcpherson-8936.jpg 850w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Perched adult Red-tailed Hawk in Tooele County<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a rather short tale about a Red-tailed Hawk although the tail of the Red-tailed Hawk is no shorter than any other Red-tailed Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>It is just a tale of a perched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Red-tailed_Hawk\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Red-tailed Hawk<\/span><\/a> adult &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-166219 size-full\" title=\"Adult Red-tail lifting off in Tooele County, West Desert, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-8937.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-8937.jpg\" alt=\"Adult Red-tail lifting off in Tooele County, West Desert, Utah\" width=\"850\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20850%20607%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27850%27%20height%3D%27607%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-8937-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-lift-off-mia-mcpherson-8937-300x214.jpg 300w, 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