ML411260081

Age and sex

Juvenile, Unknown sex - 1

Observation details

Happened to notice it was back at pheasant kill, picking clean individual feathers. Then it ran, somewhat awkwardly and straight leg like atop the snow, around what Bridger dubbed the "crime scene" and seemed to check that it wasn't missing any more bits. I moved over to the feeder area and as I came back around to see if it was still in the garden, it was flying low toward feeder tree. It landed right across street in the aspens and drew a crowd of chickadees and finches. One nuthatch was particularly close. I snuck closer and was able to get good photos when it moved to another aspen. There is a red squirrel that showed up a few days ago and it was calling out from the feeder tree. Eventually, the NOGO tried for the squirrel but quickly gave up and kept going over to a high branch in a lodgepole. It was there for well over an hour, the chickadees gave up after about 20min and went back to feeder. The jays, 4 blue jays and Stelvin the Stellar's jay, moved through and hazed for a bit. Eventually, everyone left it alone and it preened some and I'm guessing it was eyeing the neighbors large chicken yard from its vantage point.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D3300

ISO

800

Focal length

200 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/500 sec

Dimensions

1024 pixels x 1434 pixels

Original file size

309.39 KB