It's always a thrill for me to see a RTH hunting (or any raptor, for that matter). A couple of days a ago, saw a juvenile RTH landed on top of the lamp post; about 5 minutes later, he spotted something in the grass below, jumped down, I got off 3 shots. I was pretty close, these are all full frames re-sized for web; maybe next time I will step back a little bit, to leave room for cropping/composition. C&C always welcome.
Unfortunately, whatever he was after escaped. Honestly, I was more disappointed than he; I wanted a cute little white bunny at his talons in #3 (he caught one a while back in this area). A little critter won't be good enough, like this:
brian_sp wrote:
great set of captures, that mouse almost has an innocent look about him like he is just out for a joy ride
Thanks; I was thinking about the same when I first looked at this picture; well, the mouse felt no pain, because the hawk killed it on the ground before taking it up to the tree. Here's the hawk diving to the grass:
PetKal wrote:
The quality of those images is very impressive considering the speedey action you had to photograph.
Thanks Peter. RTH is not too bad, they are big, your pigeon shots are more challenging, pigeons are faster than RTH. Smaller birds are more difficult, this morning, I saw this sharp shinned hawk going after the kestrel, they made sharp turns, I missed a couple of good opportunities where these two were much closer to each other; my best one is this, they were not close enough.
Hmmm....I think I've seen this RTH before... And that Kestrel, too! Excellent series and technique, Charles. I'm particularly liking the two pics with the still-living mouse, his eyes wide open. Makes you wonder what was going through his mind, knowing this was it?
Hope to see more of your posts here, my friend.
And that Kestrel, too! Excellent series and technique, Charles. I'm particularly liking the two pics with the still-living mouse, his eyes wide open. Makes you wonder what was going through his mind, knowing this was it?