feathered legs – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Ferruginous And Rough-legged Hawk Lift Off Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-04-20T21:22:12-05:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteo regalis, Buteos, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, feet, Ferruginous Hawk, first winter, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, immature, legs, lift off, lifting off, light morph, male, power pole, raptors, rock, rocks, Rough-legged Hawk, sky, take off, taking off, young|

Yesterday morning I was able to take Ferruginous and Rough-legged Hawk lift off photos where both of the raptors still had their feet on their perches.

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Feathered Tarsi – Ferruginous & Rough-legged Hawks Have Feathered Legs

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-23T13:46:17-05:00November 7th, 2017|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Ferruginous Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Swainson's Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, bare legs, bare tarsi, birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteo regalis, Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, feathered, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, hawk, hawks, legs, lift off, light morph, morph, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, tarsus|

North America has two hawk (buteos) species that have feathered tarsi, or legs, those two species are Ferruginous Hawks and Rough-legged Hawks.

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Rough-legged Hawk on a Designated Parking Sign

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-06T08:03:28-05:00January 23rd, 2017|Categories: Birds, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, fog, foggy, frost, frosty, hawks, hoar frost, immature, light morph, parking sign, perched, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sign, tarsus, whiteout, whiteout conditions, winter, young|

Many of the birds here in the Salt Lake Valley find a place to roost in the evening and overnight frost begins to accumulate on their feathers like it did on this Rough-legged Hawk on a parking sign.

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Interesting Ferruginous Hawk Horizontal Take Off – It Made Me Laugh

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-23T14:20:30-05:00November 16th, 2016|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: adult, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, desert, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, Ferruginous Hawk, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, horizontal, light morph, power pole, raptors, sky, take off|

I have to say that when I viewed this image on my monitor of the Ferruginous Hawk taking off from the power pole yesterday that I laughed out loud.

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Rough-legged Hawk lifting off

By Mia McPherson|2021-11-06T09:51:31-05:00December 27th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Rough-legged Hawks, Utah|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo lagopus, Buteos, feathered legs, feathered tarsi, hawk, hawks, lift off, light morph, marsh, nest box, raptors, Rough-legged Hawk, sky, wetlands, winter|

Rough-legged Hawks are among my favorites of the raptors that over winter in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah because I only see them at this time of the year while they wait to head back to the subarctic and Arctic to breed.

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Ferruginous Hawk in Tooele County, Utah

By Mia McPherson|2021-09-23T18:28:22-05:00February 8th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, balanced, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Buteos, desert, fall, feathered legs, fence post, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, light morph, perched, sky, Tooele County, Utah, west desert, wing lift|

There aren't many people in the west desert of Utah thus the raptors and other birds that live there are not habituated to people so they are very skittish even when using a mobile blind.

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