Tag: prey
Red-tailed Hawk With Prey
Plus an exciting and incredibly frustrating experience with an adult Bald Eagle yesterday morning.
Peregrine Falcon In Hoarfrost
The Pied-billed Grebe And The Crayfish
Have you ever wondered how a grebe swallows a crayfish with all those annoying legs and pincers sticking out? The answer is… it doesn’t. It amputates them first.
Prairie Falcon With A Few Surprises In Store For Me
Bird photographers never know what we’ll see in our photos that we didn’t notice in the field. My shots of this Prairie Falcon taken two days ago surprised me in more ways than one.
Greater Yellowlegs With A Fish
Short-eared Owl With Prey Flying Straight At Me
Prairie Falcon Trying To Drag Heavy Prey
Dragging her next meal over all the bumpy obstacles was almost too much for the struggling falcon.
“Stuff” Going On In The Mountains Yesterday Morning
Immature Red-tailed Hawk With A Rodent
Short-eared Owl In Flight With Rodent Prey
Largely because of all I learned from him this may be my favorite individual bird I’ve ever photographed.
Merlin In The Fog With Prey
Red Fox “Smiling”, Hunting And Pouncing On Prey
Maybe, just maybe, foxes can’t really smile but they sure as hell can jump. Yesterday in the mountains this one proved it.
Prairie Falcon In Flight With Prey
This photo is on the short list of my favorite shots of all time, partly because of its high degree of difficulty but certainly not limited to that. But the version I’ve posted in the past needed some tweaking.
Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey Being Chased By Another Owl
A double dose of serendipity with the two related events being separated from each other by eight years. To the day.