Tag: hawks
Up Close and Personal with a Rough-legged Hawk
I wanted to follow up on my Week 50 photograph of a Rough-legged Hawk being released with some more details about the individual we trapped and banded. The scientific name for the Rough-legged Hawk is Buteo lagopus. Why are they ...
Week 51 – Red-tailed Hawk
Turns out there are raptors in New York City too, and from my limited observations they live a pretty cushy existence. Most folks, even non-birders, know about the Red-tailed Hawks of Central Park. But while visiting the big city last ...
Week 50 – Rough-legged Hawk
What's even better than photographing your first Rough-legged Hawk? How about trapping one and getting to see it up-close-and-personal! I made an unofficial rule at the beginning of this 52-week project that I wouldn't use the same species two weeks ...
Week 49 – Rough-legged Hawk
Finally!! It's no secret that Rough-legged Hawks are my favorite bird, but they have continued to be my "nemesis photograph bird" ever since I acquired my Canon 7D in the summer of 2012. No longer. I had several better photographs ...
Week 42 – Northern Goshawk
Another photo this week from the Goshutes in Nevada. If you look closely at this bird's right leg you'll notice a silver aluminum band. These bands have a unique number on them that will identify this individual bird if he ...
Week 41 – Sharp-shinned Hawk
This adult female Sharp-shinned Hawk was photographed from inside the trapping blind at HawkWatch International's Goshute Mountains Raptor Migration Site. The Goshutes are a remote field site without internet access, hence the lateness of this weeks photo. Since this isn't ...
Week 13 – Red-tailed Hawk
This past weekend I found myself camping in the City of Rocks National Reserve in southern Idaho. This is a very popular area for rock climbers, and while I managed to get in a little bit of climbing, I was ...
Centennial Marsh Wildlife Management Area
I've been pretty excited these past few weeks as I researched and planned to purchase my first DSLR camera from Canon. I have not historically been a person well-versed in camera knowledge, and have pretty much been relegated to shooting ...
A Field Guide to Aging and Sexing Rough-Legged Hawks
Am I becoming obsessed with Rough-Legged Hawks? Perhaps, but for good reasons I swear! There is relatively little known about the year-round ecology and life history traits of this high arctic breeder. This is all the more surprising when you ...
