After a few attempts at photographing one of the coolest parts of flying large falcons from high pitches, we are finding out just how difficult this can be. I went so far as to rent a larger lense to try to accomplish this. I've really not seen many photos of falcons in this moment and wonder if anyone has had success trying to capture this on film and what the keys are to getting a shot like this. My friend is using his Nikon dslr and is shooting at 6 frames per second. I rented a 400 mm lense with AF and VR to help. This one of my little tiercel is from an extreme pitch and he was quite a distance away from my friend photographing him, but even these get me pumped. Its awesome to see a falcon in this moment. These are cropped in and edited and they are still pretty weak....but cool nonetheless.
Please post any photos you guys and gals may have.

This is another of the gyr from the other day.