dhogaza
Posts: 525
Joined: Feb. 2006
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| Quote | | I don't yet have any pics of birds cranky with me, but this gal's still sportin' some 'tude |
A female cooper's hawk on the attack has 'tude roughly equivalent to that of an NFL linebacker trying to kill a running back ...
The cardinal's very nice ... if you'd taken a half-step to the right, that little branch might've been out of the way, but it can be really difficult to see such obstructions in the viewfinder ...
Were both cooper's hawks shot with in-camera generation of JPEGs, or post-processed from raw? In-camera shot-to-shot JPEG conversions of roughly the same scene ought to be of similar color saturation ... strange.
You're lucky to have raptors coming to your back yard like this. I live in a fairly sterile neighborhood, though last year I did see a young peregrine falcon chasing a city pigeon in circles over a local light-industrial building a few blocks from home! 'Round and 'round and round they went, for probably five minutes, the pigeon able to turn more tightly than the peregrine, but not able to escape. Finally the pigeon - probably tiring - broke off in a straight line with the peregrine on its heels. Unfortunately buildings were in the way and they were low, didn't get to see the grand finale, but I'd bet on the peregrine.
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