"Misha" Female Albidus on a Jack. Picture taken today.
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"Misha" Female Albidus on a Jack. Picture taken today.
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Her 1st catch of the season
Great shot!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Skinner
Nice shot!!!!!
Here's three pictures of my RT on his 3 kills so far this season.
Just a pic of a wild Harris' that I see often at the same place when I take out the Cooper's and Merlin. Its a very confiding bird and seems that it won't be around long as it sometimes sits at this spot which about 50 feet off the dirt road, and when you stop to look and take pictures, it doesn't move off unless you get too pushy. I just wish the angle of the sun was better for the shot.
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Mr Bolt in training
A couple of pics of a large adult female RT (rufous morph) that I've been seeing for years in the winter, but just didn't have the equipment to get decent photos of her. I'm a little closer now with some better, but still budget, equipment.
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A couple of other pics of nearby inhabitants. A wild passage jack Taiga Merlin and a couple of wild youngish Harris' Hawk siblings taken just over the into the neighbors yard. They were watching their parents intently, but the parents were in front of my house out of my view.
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Pete, keep it up and you have more falconers moving to New Mexico!thumbsupp
They say they want to, until they hear about snakes, thorns, heat, then they kick back in Margaritaville and say "Nah".Quote:
Originally Posted by broken feather
And in New Mexico you can't trap these HH's in Pete's neighborhood. Only in the southeastern part of the state.
We need to get that changed I'd say. They're getting much more widespread than they used to be. Alamogordo has a good population going and a few groups down around the border with Texas near El Paso as well. Being as they are still lotteried, I don't know why it should make any difference now where they are taken from. The urban ones like these tend to have very short lives due to the increased level of electrocution and collisions compared to wild groups.Quote:
Originally Posted by raptrlvr
Jim, okay you have to drive 50 miles?noideaI started packing my clothes!
Actually I would have to drive about 5 hours one way to trap a HH in New Mexico. I agree with Pete, we need to get HH take state wide. I see a couple of families of HH's down in Deming every season and thats only 50 miles from my house.
From earlier this year. The RT was fat and healthy and in remarkable shape. First amputee I have ever caught. She was a nice dark bird and hit the trap like a freight train.
The kestrel was one of the prettiest I have ever seen. I have never seen one with this much orange on the chest.
Here's a picture of Jim Frazier and his gyr/saker hybrid chasing grouse in the Idaho sage flats this past week. Jim is 87 and still at it with great enthusiasm.
Paul
Wow Paul,
Great pic! Tell Jim that I say hello. Kate and I spoke of him yesterday.
That's awesome!clappQuote:
Originally Posted by Paul Mascuch
Awesome, say hi from me as well. Always love seeing Jim at the nafa meets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Mascuch
Out hunting in PA today a little bit.
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She hit the rabbit hard and hitched a ride through the jagger brush. She hit the brakes but went right into that branch as the rabbit made it into the hole. One lucky rabbit. When we got to her she was trying to crawl into the hole after it.
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She didn't want to give up on it.
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Coming back down at the end of the hunt.
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Shkote on his first squirrel kill this season, back in December
A photo from the meet this weekend.
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You do what you have to do to flush squirrels!!
Here's a picture of the weathervane I look at in the morning to see where the wind will take my bird. If it gets a chance. The sun was peaking thru the snow and wind but I wasn't fast enough to get it in the picture.
atcfalconry's aplomado
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That looks like a very early morning for you, Morris. I thought you prefer to get up when the sun is well overhead :)Quote:
Originally Posted by weathervaneman
10:30 - 11:00 right after the sun comes up.That picture was taken right before the sun went down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross
Caught a pic of this RT braving the weather yesterday.
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Of course, maybe it's the Blue Jay that's the brave one?
While out trapping last month a fog bank rolled up under a tree I had just place a BC under.
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atcfalconry's bird Siing is on the bottom and my little tiercel is on the top. Little dispute as to who is gonna get to sit on the sign post. These 2 birds stayed locked up like this for about 5 minutes and then Siing fell to the ground. Neither bird was hurt and all was well the rest of the day.
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:eek:confuseddcrazyy Strange birds.Quote:
Originally Posted by raptrlvr
Interesting viewing
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That is interesting. There's an article in this years Journal that talks about this festival and the sparrow hawk culture in Tunisia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanner