{"id":95019,"date":"2021-09-15T04:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=95019"},"modified":"2022-09-11T04:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T10:41:51","slug":"more-west-desert-red-tailed-hawk-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/09\/15\/more-west-desert-red-tailed-hawk-images\/","title":{"rendered":"More West Desert Red-tailed Hawk Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SideSide lit adult Red-tailed Hawk on a juniper \u2013 Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/320, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

I went out into the West Desert yesterday and came back with more Red-tailed Hawk images that I was delighted to have taken and that I am happy with. I also found a Prairie Falcon before the sun had fully risen.<\/p>\n

The Red-tailed Hawks I found were higher in the mountain canyons than the falcon was and they were much less skittish that it was too.<\/p>\n

This adult Red-tailed Hawk was side lit but I enjoyed the pose of the raptor and the laciness of the juniper branch it was perched on.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Red-tailed Hawk high on a White Fir \u2013 Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1000, ISO 500, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I spotted this sharp looking immature Red-tailed Hawk perched above the cones of a White Fir higher in the canyon. This young hawk was being pestered by several Pine Siskins which are much smaller than the hawk. When it finally took off I hoped I would see it again.<\/p>\n

\"YoungYoung Red-tailed Hawk perched on a White Fir high in West Desert Mountains \u2013 Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

And I did when I found it perched on another White Fir<\/span><\/a>. I liked this background more than I liked the plain blue sky. I enjoyed being able to see the ripening cones of the White fir in my images too.<\/p>\n

The hawk was a bit farther away than I would have liked and I struggled some with the steep angle which caused some pain in my shoulder from holding my camera pointed up.<\/p>\n

\"ImmatureImmature Red-tailed Hawk perched on a White Fir \u2013 Nikon D810, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

I kept hoping that the hawk would lift off and take flight but after a long period of time it seemed like the young raptor was quite content where it was perched.<\/p>\n

After leaving the striking looking young Red-tailed Hawk to check out some areas higher up on the mountain. When I came back down the mountain in less than five minutes I was dismayed to see that the hawk had taken off after all and that I missed it.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went out into the West Desert yesterday and came back with more Red-tailed Hawk images that I was delighted to have taken and that I am happy with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95004,"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":[27,449,358,26,1314],"tags":[10502,4004,4170,2497,3940,7708,6879,5237,4098,4033,4169,2386,4067,3914,4674,2691,4069,4104,153,4209,4342,10452,2315,2690,10501,4193],"class_list":["post-95019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-red-tailed-hawks","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-abies-concolor","tag-adult","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-buteos","tag-canyon","tag-cone","tag-cones","tag-conifer","tag-desert","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-hawks-of-utah","tag-immature","tag-juniper","tag-junipers","tag-juniperus-osteosperma","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-raptors","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-side-lit","tag-sky-island-mountains","tag-summer-3","tag-utah-juniper","tag-white-fir","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