{"id":18342,"date":"2012-07-25T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:28:55","slug":"a-pair-of-red-tailed-hawks-in-early-morning-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-pair-of-red-tailed-hawks-in-early-morning-light\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of Red-tailed Hawks in early morning light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having one Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in my viewfinder is a joy and getting two of them in the same frame is even more of a delight. On the morning of the last day of my recent trip to southwestern Montana we found this pair of adult Red-tailed Hawks perched on the sun-bleached branches of a dead Aspen in Beaverhead County, I believe they are a mated pair because they stayed close to each other the entire time that I photographed them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 966px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/red-tailed-hawks-mia-mcpherson-4276.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"956\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">A pair of Red-tailed Hawks in morning light \u2013 Nikon D300, f9, 1\/200, ISO 400, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"none\">Read the full article by Mia McPherson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having one Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) in my viewfinder is a joy and getting two of them in the same frame is even more of a delight. 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