My attempt at a few raptors in flight
Dec 18, 2021 19:26:02 #
Here are a few photos of a Great Horned Owl, Gray Hawk, Crested Caracara and Harris's Hawks.
These were taken at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. I highly recommend visitors to the area to check this place out.
From late fall thru April they run daily "Raptor Free Flight" demonstrations for visitors. Yesterday I felt the wings of the Great Horned Owl on my head as he past by. The Harris Hawk also came pretty close to my head.
An amazing experience.
Downloads are recommended.
Hope you enjoy these.
Merry Christmas
Jim
These were taken at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. I highly recommend visitors to the area to check this place out.
From late fall thru April they run daily "Raptor Free Flight" demonstrations for visitors. Yesterday I felt the wings of the Great Horned Owl on my head as he past by. The Harris Hawk also came pretty close to my head.
An amazing experience.
Downloads are recommended.
Hope you enjoy these.
Merry Christmas
Jim
Great Horned Owl
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Great Horned Owl, with turn signal engaged
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Crested Caracara
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Crested Caracara - launching off
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Crested Caracara
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Mexican Gray Hawk
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Harris's Hawk -soaring in
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Harris's Hawk landing
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Harris' Hawk - wings up
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Harris's Hawk - balancing after landing
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Curmudgeon wrote:
Nice shots Jim
Thank you Jack
Have you been there lately?
Dec 18, 2021 19:58:40 #
jdtonkinson wrote:
Thank you Jack
Have you been there lately?
Have you been there lately?
Not for a year or more. It's nice to see the free flight birds without jesses. I need to get out more but the cold weather just slows the old body down to a crawl.
Dec 18, 2021 20:12:10 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Not for a year or more. It's nice to see the free flight birds without jesses. I need to get out more but the cold weather just slows the old body down to a crawl.
I understand...it was a bit chilly at 1st. My feet got tired after a few hours
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Really nice photos. I've been there a few times and got and posted some pretty nice ones too.
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jdtonkinson wrote:
Here are a few photos of a Great Horned Owl, Gray ... (show quote)
Jim, these are incredibly detailed views of wings. In particular, you have shown wing-warping. That was the key to the Wright Brothers success at mastering controlled flight. Human aviators will see these shots differently than most others. Thank you.
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