Just discovered that “Sharp Eyes” is featured in the group Animal Kingdom. This is a lovely surprise as getting close to and photographin…
Just discovered that “Sharp Eyes” is featured in the group Animal Kingdom. This is a lovely surprise as getting close to and photographing these lovely birds of prey was such a thrill. They are so magnificent. Thanks so much to the host Cheri /
Birds of prey fascinate me. We often see them on road trips / soaring high in the sky, riding thermals, or sitting / on powerlines. Less of…
Birds of prey fascinate me. We often see them on road trips / soaring high in the sky, riding thermals, or sitting / on powerlines. Less often down at our level sitting on / fence posts or picking off road kill. There are often times we wished we werent conspicuous / or that our car was silent. Wild bird photography is / challenging and frustrating. These creatures are wild / and free, with the blink of an eye they can fly off / never to be seen again. So I actually consider myself / extremely fortunate to have photographed so many wild / birds over the last few years. This was probably the wildife highlight of my recent / weekend away – a young Brown Falcon had alighted / on a fence post. We stopped the car as we do but the / Falcon took off – as they tend to do. It alighted / on a fence post in the distance – rinse and repeat! / Let us try for third time lucky. With a quiet prayer/wish / asking the Falcon to stay a while I got out of the car / and crept around sticking close to the car. The Falcon / remained on the post with its eye on me, raised its / wings a bit as if it was about to take off but then / started preening. I walked slowly towards the Falcon but averting / my gaze and got to within 15…or maybe even 10 / feet of the bird! It remained on the post in / beautiful daylight with a backdrop of greenery, / blue sky and wattle. I was even able to move / a little and change angles without the bird / flinching. Hard to tell how many moments I got / with the bird but it was a magical experience / and I got numerous images before it flew off / and disappeared into the wide blue yonder. Click here to view/purchase this image
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