Fenway wildlife pic.

[Hayabusa Rider]

This fellow wouldn't budge although he might have been a bit ticked for me disturbing his preening. I was able to get within 15 feet of him and he never moved. I didn't want to chase him off, so I didn't try to get closer. He was about 10 feet off the ground so I got a good look at him.

 

[IronWing]

He's contemplating the feeling of his talons slicing through your eyeballs.


Edit: Very nice picture.

 

[Gibsons]

Hawks are awesome. Doubly awesome when they kill nasty pigeons.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I love hawks. I always get excited to see them.

 

[Jeffg010]

You should change your name to Hawkbusa Rider

 

[soulcougher73]

I love hawks. I always get excited to see them.

This..i dont know why though lol. Just like them.

 

[zinfamous]

This..i dont know why though lol. Just like them.

It's because raptors are the coolest animals on earth, that's why. Highly skilled, very efficient, the bosses of what they do.

For my money, this is the boss of all of them

 

[DrPizza]

Nice pic!

 

[Crono]

He/she is totally posing for the camera

 

[Jeffg010]

It's because raptors are the coolest animals on earth, that's why. Highly skilled, very efficient, the bosses of what they do.

For my money, this is the boss of all of them

Hell ya Peregrine Falcons are awesome.They reach speeds of 200 mph.

 

[zinfamous]

Hell ya Peregrine Falcons are awesome.They reach speeds of 200 mph.

242-275mph



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Falcon

A study testing the flight physics of an "ideal falcon" found a theoretical speed limit at 400 km/h (250 mph) for low altitude flight and 625 km/h (390 mph) for high altitude flight.[52] In 2005, Ken Franklin recorded a falcon stooping at a top speed of 389 km/h (242 mph).[53] A video of one of the dives can be seen in this link.

 

[olds]

When I was a lowly Private at Ft Sill, OK I was doing "police call" (picking up trash) along the road next to a cyclone fence. I had my head down looking for trash as I walked along and I could hear the breeze slowly banging the fence into the fence posts. It made a "tink, tink" noise. All of a sudden I felt a presence and looked up. The "tink" I heard wasn't the fence against the post. It was a hawk's claws against a post. He was sitting on top of the six foot fence a couple of feet from my face flexing his claws against the post.
I am sure I was more scared than him.

 

[Lemon law]

Bird of prey, IMHO are really cool. But as a quail and small game hunter, and now more turned wild life photograper, getting that close to a Hawk or a Owl is pretty rare.

As most of my recent close up encounters with such birds has been without a gun or a Camera. But whenever I have had a gun and gotten really close, I have never even tried to take aim or fire, as for me, its been almost a religious moment for me. As I can remember a few cases when hunting quail and pheasent on windy fall days, when sparrow hawks would hoover only 10-15 feet above me as true masters of the air. As there may be nothing prettier than the undersides of a Hawks wings in action.

But maybe my most memorable encounter was when I was hunting a squirrel as he climbed ever higher in the tree canopy. I was close to being ready to fire my shotgun, when suddenly this Red Hawk came out of no where, snached and grabbed the squirrel leaving me shocked and stunned. As the true master hunter won.