International Centre for Birds of Prey - Newent, Gloucestershire

Another great afternoon at Polesden Lacey with Alan Greehalgh's bird of prey collection.

Taken at the Tamar Otter Sanctuary North Petherwin Cornwall, a member of Staff gave a very comprehensive talk on 4 Birds of Prey, absolutely brilliant, well wortha visit

Location: Banham Zoo, Norfolk

Enkidu the Aplomado Falcon

These are samples of the first shots I took with my new Canon 7D . Still got to get used to the tracking system.

The overall speed is amazing

last minute afternoon out.. arrived in time for the last demo of the day (3pm)

Turkey Vulture with a fish

Sitka Alaska Raptor Center. Bald eagle. From about 10'. Sigma 70-200(2.8) @200 (300mm equiv) 1/125@f/4.0. Sony HVLF58AM bounced off ceiling. RAW to JPG.

A selection of images fro a visit to the Birds of Prey Centre near Thirsk in North Yorkshire.

Marakissa, The Gambia, West Africa

Harris Hawk

Fribourg, Suisse

Great horned owl

Bird of Prey

copywritten to Steve Gunn at shotbyagunn photography

Taken on a birds of prey photography day.

Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) female with Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) prey

At the Caerphilly Big Cheese Festival, Caerphilly Castle.

Common Buzzard Shapwick Heath NR Somerset UK

Well, today was a lousy day for photography! It only made it up to 56F and the wind was a steady 20MPH with gust up to 30. The sun was trying to shine through the mostly cloudy sky, but was only able to do so intermittently. Once minute the light was like from a big soft-box, a few seconds later it was direct sun.

While the wind can make it a little difficult to stand still and hold a camera steady, it also can make for some interesting fly-ins and landings. I got treated to a couple today and was able to capture a few decent shots.

This image is an un-cropped full frame