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[Clark]

On the way home from work today, a peregrine flies over my auto.
Last weekend it was down the block, perched about 40ft. off the road.
We live next to a bridge, no shortage of pidgeons....

1. Gyrfalcon
2. Aplomado Falcon
3. Bald Eagle
4. Harris's Hawk
5. Barn Owl
6. Caracara- watched youtube vid of owner describing this bird. It came out of Texas. I'm cool with it.
7. Eastern Screech Owl
8. American Kestral

Got a decent peregrine image during this trip. I'll post it later.
Thanks again

 

[The Orchid Boy]

My guess is that 2 and 8 are not the same. Nice pictures!

Edit: Didn't see the above post on this page...

 

[Ozpaph]

beautifully sharp photos.

 

[Ozpaph]

ps. - what gear are you using?

 

[Heather]

Wow~ Thanks everyone! Donation received! Thanks to all who played and Clark for the generous gift!

Excellent shots to boot!

 

[Jaljala]

Thanks Clark,
These were very nice photographs. I was not expecting to find all of them right!

 

[biothanasis]

Amazing pictures!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Shiva]

I like them all. Fantastic! You are a master of photography.

 

[Clark]

My apologies for not following up. My work is busy due to that storm Sandy.

I was not expecting to find all of them right

That makes two of us... oke:
Actually, I have seen your images of snowy owl. Thumbs up!!!


I would like to thank David/Emydura for turning me on to the unsharpen mask.
Not sure about the technical reason how it works, but seems to be the way to go during processing.
Also would like to thank Dot/slipperfan for talking about using tripod. Was trying to reinvent the wheel before, I guess, and now have a quality tripold.
Bulky, but worth it.

Hope everyone remembers that these were captive/rescue animals. They all had leashes on the legs, so they weren't going to be flushed.
Thank you! I had fun

Going to check out some snow geese in a few minutes, same place where that snowy owl was 14 or 15 months ago.