{"id":33648,"date":"2023-01-21T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33648"},"modified":"2023-01-21T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T22:26:06","slug":"okay-that-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/01\/okay-that-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, that works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While typing up the previous post, I realized that a video clip would better illustrate the difficulty in holding a long lens reasonably still, and I stepped out to do a quick clip of whatever I could find, probably just the top of a nearby tree. But as I was doing this, one of the neighbors pointed out that the hawk that I&#8217;d seen fly over and disappear as I came out had only gone just around the corner and settled into a tree, so I elected to use that as a subject instead, and started stalking closer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/RedtailBack.jpg\" alt=\"immature red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis sitting with back to photographer\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33649\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Amazingly, today is also an appropriate holiday<strong>: Arouse Suspicions, But Not Too Much Day<\/strong>, so I could actually celebrate it with this red-tailed hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>) instead of by provoking The Girlfriend. The hawk was on the opposite side and a little ways down the road, and I ambled casually closer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettingSuspicious.jpg\" alt=\"immature red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis looking over its shoulder suspiciously\" width=\"750\" height=\"620\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33650\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I&#8217;m pegging this as a female due to the size and in the hopes of triggering some Woke idiot, and the lack of an actually red tail indicates that she&#8217;s immature, a year or less in age. True to intentions, she turned and watched me warily as I approached, pausing frequently to fire off another frame or two while trying not to appear as if I <em>was<\/em> stalking her. Not too much, anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/HorrifiedRedtail.jpg\" alt=\"immature red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis looking appropriately horrified\" width=\"750\" height=\"1115\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33651\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Eventually I could get past enough to get more of a proper perspective (and a bit closer,) and she favored me with the look of a Royal on the balcony who has just heard someone call out, &#8220;<em>Show us yer knickers!<\/em>&#8221; Or at least, that&#8217;s what this angle suggests, but since hawks don&#8217;t really have facial expressions, what we&#8217;re seeing instead is the brow ridge from the underside, no longer &#8216;glaring&#8217; but canted in the opposite direction, helped by the eyes shifted downward as well. The fact that she could easily have flown off at any time and didn&#8217;t, not even when I finished my session and headed back, indicated that I&#8217;d satisfied the requirements of the holiday just ducky.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen very few redtails in the immediate area, hosting more of the smaller red-shouldered hawks instead, but this one seems to be hanging around, and I&#8217;m fine with it. I&#8217;d prefer to see kestrels, really, since their numbers seem to have seriously dwindled around here in the past 20 years, plus they look cooler, but I&#8217;ll take this for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While typing up the previous post, I realized that a video clip would better illustrate the difficulty in holding a long lens reasonably still, and I stepped out to do a quick clip of whatever I could find, probably just the top of a nearby tree. 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