Random photos, let's have them

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Originally Posted by adam norrie

My wife's bantams have a little drink from Sonny's bath. Lucky for them he like them.

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I love that picture, it has them makings of a Far Side joke written all over it.

Lauren Mcgough at the Desert Hawking Classic.
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AWESOME shots!!!! That is a BIG bird!! :eek::eek:

Beautiful and very majestic !

Took these yesterday about 20 miles from my house. Harsh shadows from the morning sun and only 1 in the nest. These were taken from a distance with a 600mm lens.
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Beautiful, Jim. Love your pics. Haggard NA gos hard to beat in the beauty department.

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Originally Posted by raptrlvr

Took these yesterday about 20 miles from my house. Harsh shadows from the morning sun and only 1 in the nest. These were taken from a distance with a 600mm lens.
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Wow, look at those markings! Amazing

First 2 pics are the female. The 2nd 2 are the male. Saw the nest first, then the female About 20 minutes later, the male came screaming in and landed in a tree about 40 to 50 yards away. The female then took off for that tree while the male flew right to the spot where the female had been sitting. They would not bring the food to the nest while we were there. These pics were from at least 50 t0 60 yards away with branches in between the birds and me.

Beautiful shots Jim.

Got to live those red eyes

More of the goshawk. Think its about 35 days old.
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The day she fledged
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Thanks Jim. Have been enjoying all of your fine photo's

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Originally Posted by KidK

Here is one of Lucy, and imprint female Wisconsin Goshawk with an imped turkey tail.

They were the only feathers I had when I got her and her tail was 75% gone, so I made due. I had planned on fanning the tail feathers out and mounting on a plaque from the turkey I had shot that spring.

As soon as I got the tail feathers on her, she started catching rabbits and ducks.

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Here is a shot of COB, an 8 year Peales falcon I flew a few years back. She had been in a breeding project after being flown for a few years.

She taught me a ton and, had she not died of a stroke the following spring, I likely would have kept flying her. She was awesome.

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...a good fitting hood on a redtail..

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Last but not least, my first passage redtail (in his second year), my Brit Molly and I back in 95'.

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That Red tail hood you sent me when I bought some books from you a few years back and just noticed it! Pretty awesome!

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Taken with the IPhone 6

My son with our small female coops out carhawking yesterday.



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Kiss my cloaca.... this kill is MINE!


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Great shots guys

That fledged goshawk is spectacular!

I want everyone to take a good long hard look at that goshawk's tipped tail feathers... in the wild.

Are you talking about the fledgling because if you are and look closer they aren't actually tipped just out of place probably from crash landing

It looks to me like they did this while standing in the nest, probably pulling food and cramming those feathers into the nest sticks.

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Originally Posted by RT Alison

I want everyone to take a good long hard look at that goshawk's tipped tail feathers... in the wild.

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Yeah, those feathers are just frayed not tipped. I've caught many wild goshawks and have yet to catch one less than feather perfect, juvie or hag. Typically they have amazingly perfect talons also.

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Victoria the Aplomado in tail chase out and back into the barn the pigeon took refuge in mid chase.

Misha after a nice flight in the high desert in Northern Nevada

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Nice one Mark! But no laying down on the job. Neat pattern on Misha.

Today was interesting. Having a mini meet with some friends we had a few birds out today. One of the birds had some excellent squirrel flights and then took off in a stoop over a gate into a fenced in area on a farmette. First thing I said was "Hope she doesn't have a thing for chickens" as we took off running.. well, boy was I wrong.

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And, the falconer was hopping fences to my right during the initial set of pictures to assist, but really, the bird had the muskrat under control when he got there. No bites at all, thankfully, because the teeth on this thing are gnarly.

I never saw this jack today, but, Zoltar did. Super long flight and when I got to him he was on the jack.


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Stunningly black gyrfalcon captured from the mast of the Cunard ocean steam liner Laconia April 1923. Second photo is back of the print, but labels the bird a "pereguine falcon".

Cunard Lines list no vessel named "Alcania", but had two ships named "Laconia".


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Nice closeout to another awesome year. Thanks Spook
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Durga ended up having a great season after recovering from an injury, but this shot from last year is still my favorite...
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Checking one of the nests I've been waiting on with the drone today. The canopy closed in on me so I had to come in from the side in a fairly constrained location, turned out better than anticipated.

Its that time of the year again. Yesterday we pulled a female goshawk from this nest. Looks to be about 7 days old.
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Originally Posted by gemiller

Checking one of the nests I've been waiting on with the drone today. The canopy closed in on me so I had to come in from the side in a fairly constrained location, turned out better than anticipated.

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Gregory, interesting to me that she seems so calm on the nest with a drone hovering above her. I'd thought of using this method to look into goshawks nests and those of cliff nesting raptors but was concerned about the drone being attacked and ending up with an injured parent bird(s). Any aggression occurring? What species have you looked in on and what range are you typically at when shooting? Thanks for the help.

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Originally Posted by raptrlvr

Its that time of the year again. Yesterday we pulled a female goshawk from this nest. Looks to be about 7 days old.

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What a cutie! Hopefully with a blood lust.