One For The Birdbrains
Calling toddkeith533, Jim Frazier, and Catherine Sienko !
Here's the story behind this shot.
It was about 6:30 last night, we were at home and had the front door open since it wasn't too cool yet. NIccy was in the kitchen and says "Wow, did you hear that bird"? I didn't have my hearing aids in and even with them I probably wouldn't have heard it so I said No, what bird? She says some bird outside so I open the door to have a look.
This fellow was sitting on the road across from the house, not moving at all. I went back in and told her to come have a look, then went back out.
When I went back out this fellow was doing some kind of a wild hop and that's when the pigeon he'd snagged for dinner decided it was time to get the heck out of Dodge and took off. After his dinner had flown the coop he was just sitting there making a kind of loud cheep and looking around, probably wondering where his meal had gotten off to.
I ran back in the house and grabbed the camera, thought I might get a shot. I had my telephoto lens on without my external flash, didn't want to spook him before I got a chance to hit the shutter so I moved in as close as I dared and zoomed. Put it in P Mode, popped the onboard flash up and fired away. This is what I came up with.
Anyhow, the whole reason for posting this is to ask the bird folks what kind of bird this is. I was thinking it might be a Harris Hawk, kind of looked like one of the beautiful shots that Catherine Sienko has posted recently but I'm not a birder so I'm not sure.
I\'m actually kind of glad to see him/her in the neighborhood, maybe he/she will clean out some of the flying rats that my neighbor likes to feed.
One For The Birdbrains
Calling toddkeith533, Jim Frazier, and Catherine Sienko !
Here's the story behind this shot.
It was about 6:30 last night, we were at home and had the front door open since it wasn't too cool yet. NIccy was in the kitchen and says "Wow, did you hear that bird"? I didn't have my hearing aids in and even with them I probably wouldn't have heard it so I said No, what bird? She says some bird outside so I open the door to have a look.
This fellow was sitting on the road across from the house, not moving at all. I went back in and told her to come have a look, then went back out.
When I went back out this fellow was doing some kind of a wild hop and that's when the pigeon he'd snagged for dinner decided it was time to get the heck out of Dodge and took off. After his dinner had flown the coop he was just sitting there making a kind of loud cheep and looking around, probably wondering where his meal had gotten off to.
I ran back in the house and grabbed the camera, thought I might get a shot. I had my telephoto lens on without my external flash, didn't want to spook him before I got a chance to hit the shutter so I moved in as close as I dared and zoomed. Put it in P Mode, popped the onboard flash up and fired away. This is what I came up with.
Anyhow, the whole reason for posting this is to ask the bird folks what kind of bird this is. I was thinking it might be a Harris Hawk, kind of looked like one of the beautiful shots that Catherine Sienko has posted recently but I'm not a birder so I'm not sure.
I\'m actually kind of glad to see him/her in the neighborhood, maybe he/she will clean out some of the flying rats that my neighbor likes to feed.