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RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-14-2020
Circaete ?
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-14-2020
Cindy Goeddel: " For 6 magical days in 2013, I was able to photograph and observe this Great Gray Owl. I learned its favorite hunting perches and I could often anticipate where it would fly to next. I would position myself far enough away as to not interfere with its hunting and quietly wait for hours on end for the chance that he would fly towards me for a photograph. Unfortunately, each time he obliged, the light was far less than optimal. These images will never win an award, but I am proud of them nevertheless. They were taken with deep respect and care to do no harm to the owl. They were taken after hours of observation and study of his behavior. They were taken without luring or baiting the owl into an artificial setting. Finally, they were processed in Lightroom without editing away the reality of the scene when I pressed the shutter.⠀ "
Apparently these sublime shots were realised in Montana.
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-14-2020
Daniel Lindhardt: " When you go to bed with wet hair and can’t seem to get that one area to do anything "
Apparently realised in Utah.
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-17-2020
Peet Strydom: " Bearded Vulture, also called Lammergeier.
Uncommon resident, regarded as Endangered in South Africa with recent population decrease, due mainly to poisoning.
Habitat: Drakensberg escarpment and surrounding foothills. "
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-22-2020
David Yarrow: " Take Off
I prefer to work with big alpha animals – elephants have a greater pull on me than mice. This is true also with birds and this has drawn me towards the American Bald eagle – a magnificent and emblematic creature with an astonishing wingspan of up to seven feet.
The difficulty is capturing imagery that captures fresh detail – the world is not short of images of this bird – indeed they adorn homes in America from the White House down.
The starting point for me was always going to be the wings – their size and textural detail. However, the more I worked on this project in Alaska, the more I was disappointed by my “in flight” work – I struggled to do the wings justice. The problem was simply that in flight, the wings do look big, but there is a disconnect to anything that gives real scale – a “big sky” does not help as it excludes much of what could help define and give context.
I travelled to the fishing village of Homer – a great place to spot great Bald eagles, especially in the winter and spring and sure enough there were a great number of eagles on the beach. It was then a question of getting sufficiently close to work with as small a telephoto as possible. Instinctively, eagles will tend to take off away from an intruder, not towards him and to engineer the effect captured I had to use decoys to encourage the eagle’s first wing movement in my direction.
Finally, it came off – and I think this is indeed a fresh image of a bald eagle. What remarkable wings and all the more remarkable at take-off. "
RE: Birds of Prey - bigcatlover - 05-24-2020
Eagle eating a deer alive
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-26-2020
Kintoo Dhawan : " They rules the sky over Corbett. Lesser Fish Eagle. "
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-28-2020
Niko Pekonen: " Great gray owl (strix nebulosa) in flight. Finland "
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 05-29-2020
Zhayynn James: " Third Eye Blind
Birds have an extra eyelid, a translucent membrane called the nictitating membrane which moves laterally across the eyes to clean them of dust and to keep them moist, without impeding their vision. I was fortunate to photograph this magnificent martial eagle looking straight at the camera as it deployed its nictitating membrane across its eye. "
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 06-02-2020
Daniel Lindhardt: " Despite being caught red handed, Mr Swainson continued to try and hide the evidence of rodent death stuck on his talons and beak. "
RE: Birds of Prey - Dark Jaguar - 06-02-2020
WikiAves
Black Headed Vulture.
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RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 06-04-2020
Peet Strydom: " Lanner Falcon with a Sandgrouse for the catch of the day. "
RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 06-19-2020
RE: Birds of Prey - epaiva - 06-29-2020
Incredible pictures credit to John Broderick
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RE: Birds of Prey - Spalea - 06-29-2020
Peet Strydom: " African Harrier-Hawk. "