Reading your and Duc's postings reminds me of a picture I took a while back. Waking up one lazy morning weekend and looking out the window without my glasses and eyes half shut, I thought there was something unusual in the back yard. After grabbing my glasses and very much still half asleep, but being a pho nhom wannabe even then, I fumbled around to look for the newly bought P&S camera. Using the maximum zoom power (only 10X) and through the window's glass and screen, here's my second entry of the week:
"Weekend Feast" J
The bird of prey is a red tailed hawk. With extremely sharp hearing and vision, he soon realized that someone is watching him, unpolitely and like a hawk, he flew off to a highest tree branch and finish his meal uninterrupted and no doubt with great pleasure…
Khiem
Hi Khiem
ReplyDeleteIt's indeed very lucky and good timing to capture those photos so clearly. When I was on a safari in Africa a few years back, I also watched from a safe distance some Cape vultures feasting on carcasses of poor impalas, but my small camera could not zoom enough to take good photos... Last week end I visited the Natural History Museum in downtown LA, and there was a very good wing devoted to birds including birds of prey, with great explanations on how the birds of prey play a vital role in the food chain and ecosystem...
Cheers
Caro
Dear Khiêm TX,
ReplyDeleteit's definitely the kind of shot that I would have loved to make myself.
Short of shooting the verboten species itself.
An eagle tweaking its hooked beak into the hot fuming entrails of the small rodent then flying away with 3 feet of intestinal wurstz as tasteful breakfast sausage for its nestful of young scavengers in the dawning sun is certainly a sight to immortalize.
;-)
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Minh-Thuy & Khiem Ktc:
ReplyDeleteYour fantastic photos of these voracious raptors render much excitement to the “Tasting Pleasure” or “bloody pleasure” theme?
Anyway, It’s too awesome to capture these rare moments on camera… it’s not easy at all…
Liem
Hi dear Khiem tici,
ReplyDeleteyou were much faster than your bird of prey !
Bravo ! Your pic is priceless, ça vaut qq
bâtons de Kirsch.
L'oiseau est menaçant.Où est Mobutu ?
CTT