Raptors and Owls of the world
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These birds are the female (left) and the juvenile (right). She has just passed a morsel of mouse to her young one - a tender moment!
Again from Pete Whieldon's hide near Winchester.
Ypache Tsuga
Here, she is sitting on a fence post in front of a beech tree in the garden...She may well be contemplating her name.
Eliot says cats must have three names. Ypache has two. However, I often call her Ypache McClatchey; well, she IS Scottish, after all.
Her middle name is a nod to her mother, Aspyn, named after a beautiful willow tree and, as we had just returned from a road trip from California, through Oregon to Washington, I decided to use the western hemlock or Tsuga.
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
iPad “noir” function.
“When you notice a cat in profound meditation
The reason, I tell you, is always the same
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name
His ineffable, effable, effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name, name, name, name, name, name.”
TS Eliot - ‘The Naming of Cats’
Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/7.1, 1/1600, ISO 560. A small falcon, raptor. View Large.
Ornate hawk-eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), a fairly large bird of prey, is from the tropical Americas. It is one of four living members of the Spizaetus species of “hawk-eagle” native to the neotropics. Seen in the San Diego Zoo's Eagle Trail. Cnservation status: Near Threatened
There are bound to be confrontations when two different raptors share the same hunting territory. The smaller Short-eared Owl always tries to chase away any Harrier in in what it thinks is 'his' local hunting area. It is always very exciting to observe such wild animal behavior.
Milpitas Bald Eagle family has 2 eaglets this year. Unfortunately the younger one passed away last week. Eagle parents are checking the nest more frequently now to make sure the other eaglet is doing okay.
此地的白頭禿鷹家庭今年增加了兩位小禿鷹，很不幸年輕的那隻於上週夭折。因此雙親最近常常回家查看，希望年長的那隻一切安好。
Milpitas, California
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This Male Osprey is just leaving after mating. You can see her wing under his tail. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway, NJ.
It's a juvenile Bald Eagle, processed for the Thursday Monochrome and Monochrome Bokeh Thursday groups.
HMT & HMBT
Paperhand Puppet Intervention Performance
Forest Theatre
Chapel Hill, NC
Sony NEX-6, Canon FDn 50mm/f1.4 lens
[Explored on 2015/09/17]
I can't say which breed of raptor this is, I saw it years ago at a country show. Can anyone tell me what type of bird of prey it is? Thank you for the identification which is that it is a Gyr Falcon.
We got close to this Osprey and its breakfast due a developing drama above us. A bald eagle was circling with, we suspected, plans to coerce this Osprey to drop its meal. The Osprey's mate was busy chasing off the questionable character, to a happy ending. We later saw the two Osprey fly off together, this one carrying the meal. We could then proceed across this bridge on our hike.
Takeoff. I also captured another shot of this beast that fills the entire frame, which I’ll share later. I like this one because of the perspective and angle.
Taken late afternoon just as the light was turning a beautiful gold yellow colour,never usually that lucky.
I went to a local wetland in Tuusula, Finland for a photography trip. It was a very grey autumn day, but there were many birds around. When I was leaving and walking back, this Northern Goshawk suddenly landed right next to the path where I had just walked. It startled me completely! I managed to lift my camera quickly and take a few shots before it flew away.