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A great day with birds of prey!

Tula_Montage

Tula_Montage

It's Jager time!
I had a day off today, so I decided to spend it wisely, combining two of my favorite things, nature and photography :)

Barn Own called Tootsie. I was sitting about 30ft away so the shots are a bit crappy. And this is my first time ever shooting birds.

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My brother holding her.
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Those are gorgeous! The second one down of the hawk looks like he's coming for you...."HEY LADY! No Paparazzi!!" :laugh:
 
Birds of prey like that are beautiful majestic creatures!!!

nice pictures as well ;)
 
The additional photos were taken quite close up and with the flash so I was able to get some pretty shots :)

Thanks everyone.
 
Wow! You know how to get the beauty in everything you photograph!! Great work!! Hawks are my favorite bird so I am very very happy to see some beautiful shots of Harris and I love the barn owl as well :0)

lol..whenever I see a barn owl I think of the movie "Labyrinth" .hehehe
 
LOL I know what you mean. They are such elegant creatures though. I could watch them all day.

The Harris brushed the top of my head when flying around though. I didn't have time to duck, they are soooo fast.
 
I love Harris Hawks. They are still on my "must see in the wild" list.
Love all the photos - that owl is just incredible!
 
Tula_Montage said:
Thanks Katie. I didn't realise how hard it is to photograph birds, especially in flight!
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I know what you mean. I try to get the pelicans around here all the time and the wings almost always come out in a blur.

Here's one I took of a Harris Hawk in flight at a Renaissance festival in Phoenix:
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I had chosen a bad place to sit so I had really terrible lighting for just about all the photos I took that day unfortunately.
 
The lighting is fine! Next time, why not just speed up the shutter speed and you won't get white skys.

I think I was shooting at SS 400 f/8 for the birds because the sun was shining soooo brightly. And I needed a fast shutter anyway to catch those birds in action.
 
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