{"id":8490,"date":"2012-10-14T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2012-11-30T06:36:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T13:36:46","slug":"escaped-falconry-bird-peregrine-falcon-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/14\/escaped-falconry-bird-peregrine-falcon-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Falconry Bird – Peregrine Falcon, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, just as the sun was peeking over the mountains, we found this Peregrine Falcon along the Antelope Island Causeway.<\/p>\n

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It was feeding on a bird of some kind, possibly prey stolen from another falcon, as we saw two of them as we approached but one flew off.\u00a0 The falcon was intent on its meal and allowed me to photograph it for 22 minutes.\u00a0 The lighting was low and difficult, with the light hitting the bright breast of the bird and leaving\u00a0its darker parts in shade for much\u00a0of that time.\u00a0\u00a0Photographers will note from my techs that I fiddled with my settings quite a bit – adjusting for the quickly changing light and the removal of my tc in anticipation of take-off.\u00a0 It was a challenging situation for me.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0It kept wanting\/trying to eat the feet and legs of the bird but as far as I could tell the falcon never actually swallowed them.<\/p>\n

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This falcon is obviously an escaped Falconry bird – notice the leather falconry anklets just above the feet.\u00a0 Here the falcon turned broadside to the light for just a few moments.<\/p>\n

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At this point the peregrine had finished its meal and\u00a0I’d taken the tc off in anticipation of flight but the bird took its own sweet time in doing so, which I appreciated.\u00a0 On the other hand, it’s very easy to miss the take-off if you have to wait a long time for it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Since it looked like the falcon would take off at a right angle to me I chose to pre focus and then not try to track it in flight, hoping it would stay the same distance from me (and in focus) for at least a few frames.<\/p>\n

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It worked adequately, though not perfectly.\u00a0 In this image\u00a0you can see the bulging crop from the meal it had just finished.<\/p>\n

I don’t know the correct terminology for them\u00a0but I believe this shot shows metal rings in the anklets that are used for the attachment of the jesses.\u00a0 Thankfully, the long jesses had apparently been removed from the bird before it escaped.\u00a0 If they were still there they would almost\u00a0certainly be an eventual death trap for the falcon.<\/p>\n

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This is the last, relatively sharp image I got as the falcon flew off.<\/p>\n

Some of you may remember this post of mine from a month ago – Escaped Falconry Bird – Peregrine Falcon<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Almost certainly, this\u00a0 falcon is the same bird as in that post.\u00a0 We reported that bird to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources – both the offices in Salt Lake City and in Ogden.\u00a0 We were told that they’d “look in to it” but we’ve never heard back from them and never seen anyone out on the causeway attempting to locate or trap the bird, even though we spend a lot of time out there.<\/p>\n

I’m now to the point that I hope this bird stays free, as it should have been from the beginning.\u00a0 I’m becoming very disillusioned regarding\u00a0the sport of falconry.\u00a0 This is the second escaped falconry bird I’ve come across.\u00a0 The first one, an\u00a0American Kestrel,\u00a0was still trailing its very long jesses.\u00a0 And that bird had escaped at least\u00a0twice from its owner (all this was documented in my first post, link above).<\/p>\n

I simply don’t understand why it’s a wise trade-off to sacrifice the freedom of\u00a0so many\u00a0species of raptors (many are snatched as fledglings from the nests of birds in the wild) so that they can become glorified pets of falconers.\u00a0 Makes no sense to me…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, just as the sun was peeking over the mountains, we found this Peregrine Falcon along the Antelope Island Causeway.   \u00a01\/1000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in It was feeding on a bird of some kind, possibly prey stolen from another falcon, as we saw two of them as we approached but one flew off.\u00a0 The falcon was intent on its meal and allowed me to photograph it for 22 minutes.\u00a0 The lighting was low and difficult, with the light hitting the bright breast of the bird and leaving\u00a0its darker parts in shade for much\u00a0of that time.\u00a0\u00a0Photographers will note from my techs that I fiddled with my settings quite a bit – adjusting for the quickly changing light and the removal of my tc in anticipation of take-off.\u00a0 It was a challenging situation for me.     1\/640, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in \u00a0It kept wanting\/trying to eat the feet and legs of the bird but as far as I could tell the falcon never actually swallowed them.     \u00a01\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in This falcon is obviously an escaped Falconry bird – notice the leather falconry anklets just above the feet.\u00a0 Here the falcon turned broadside to the light for just a few moments.     \u00a01\/3200, f\/5, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, natural light, not baited, set up…<\/p>\n

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