{"id":1809,"date":"2010-01-10T00:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T08:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2010-01-10T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T08:21:35","slug":"ferruginous-hawk-wintering-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wild-birds\/bird-sightings\/ferruginous-hawk-wintering-in-california","title":{"rendered":"Ferruginous Hawk Wintering In California"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ferruginous Hawk photos by Larry Jordan<\/p>\n

I am excited that I have had a wintering Ferruginous Hawk<\/strong> (Buteo regalis) grace our neck of the grasslands for the third year in a row!\u00a0 So, I get to enjoy watching this largest of the Buteos for the next few months.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>To me, this is one of the most beautiful hawks we have in North America.\u00a0 The rufous back, shoulders and thighs contrasting with the mostly white underparts make this a truly distinguished and “regal” species.\u00a0 This appears to be a juvenile bird, lacking the rufous thighs and only beginning to show what will become a more obvious rufous back and shoulders.\u00a0 Note the large, bright yellow gape.<\/p>\n

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Watching as this low flying raptor, hunting mostly rabbits and ground squirrels in the West, reminds me of the Rough-legged Hawk that can be seen on low perches or hunting from the ground standing over rodent mounds.<\/p>\n

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I was fortunate to capture a couple of photos of this Ferruginous Hawk<\/strong> as it landed on a nearby fence post,<\/p>\n

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showing its beautiful upper wing pattern<\/p>\n

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before alighting on the next hunting perch.\u00a0 I am looking forward to more sightings of this hawk as the winter turns to Spring.\u00a0 Maybe I will be lucky enough to get some more photographs of one of my favorite hawks.\u00a0 In the meantime, get on over to Bird Photography Weekly<\/a> to see more great bird photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ferruginous Hawk photos by Larry Jordan I am excited that I have had a wintering Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis) grace our neck of the grasslands for the third year in a row!\u00a0 So, I get to enjoy watching this largest of the Buteos for the next few months. To me, this is one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[641,6],"tags":[859,504,723,724],"class_list":{"0":"post-1809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bird-photography-weekly","7":"category-bird-sightings","8":"tag-buteo","9":"tag-ferruginous-hawk","10":"tag-hawk","11":"tag-raptor"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}