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Published: 2017-01-15 02:31:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 3917; Favourites: 346; Downloads: 177
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Brando, a juvenile male Red Tailed Hawk.Feel free to use my photos as references and stock. Please give me credit if you use my photo! I would love to see what you make, so send me a link!Β
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This is a wonderful shot, I've used it here
Thank you for making it usable to stock β₯
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Thanks for letting me know!
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you're welcome!
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Thank you!
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You are very welcome
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My pleasure.
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Wow, Great shot! I really need to get back into photography
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Thank you! It is hard to get good shots of him, almost everyphoto has a terrible background thanks to our vehicles or buildings in the background.
I haven't been taking many photos lately. I have so many I need to look through already.
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Your welcome! It turned out really amazing!
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That's a really nice shot, the focus is incredible. Are you taking lots of shots very quickly? When I try to photo birds I'm wondering if that'll help at all. I also like the bells they're using here, the two kinds of metal make a really good sound and good bells ring with only small movements, very handy when they've gone into a tree where you can't see them!
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Thanks! Yes, I set my camera on a rapid fire type mode, so it keeps taking photos as long as I keep the shutter button pressed. It helps a lot, especially with birds in flight.
Yea, I love that style of bell, they sound really good. We have a bell on almost every bird we fly.Β
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thanks for the tip! It'll come in really handy!
Bells on everythingΒ areΒ not a bad idea, I volunteered at a centre for a couple years and went full time for a while, every bird we flew had a bell on it. I've had times where I've carried on down a track to get a Harris' to follow on, looked back and they haven't moved but I've lost them in plain sight! Then I visited another place, went on a hawk walk with one of theirs who didn't have a bell and he flew off from a tree and we knew nothing about it. Cue three hours chasing with telemetry...
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I loose sight of my hunting bird ALL the time. Then I panic. Then I yell for him. Then I try to call him, usually with no luck the first two or three times. Then the final time I call him, I take a deep breath, CALM THE HECK DOWN, and here the butt-head comes, from a tree literally right in front of me, where he was watching me panic the whole time. It happens just about every hunt. 
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If I could like this comment I would, really hard! It's pretty much the way things go.
That or you're doing a display with a falcon, it goes wandering off and after you've given up hope, the crowd leaves, you get the telemetry out then back he comes, someone scrambles for a gap in people milling about as he's diving in, get the lure up and he comes in magnificently at well over a hundred mph and nobody notices.
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And then, AFTER you get the falcon back, you get a ton of people stopping by to tell you they "just saw it!" flying somewhere else... Every wild raptor is apparently our bird, whether we had one fly off for a few minutes or not
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We have at least three breeding pairs of buzzards nearby so we get that a lot. Mind, one of my fonder memories our display field was being used for a car show (modern cars, essentially portable showrooms everywhere) so we had to move our display over. The Harris demonstrates a catch out of the air and flies all the way over the whole lot to the trees he always goes to after that part of the display. I go over to get him down with the bunny lure while they carry on. He came out of the tree pretty quick, I exchanged the lure and got him back on the fist. There were a lot of salespeople who must have been really bored because I had a load of them come over to watchΒ at a respectful distance who all applauded when I'd finished. I was a bit taken aback to be honest.
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It amazes me how people will cheer when you get a hawk back... I have seen it happen with people who have had birds actually fly far off. The next day they do a show, they will tell everyone how they traveled to get their lost bird back, ans the crowd will go nuts and cheer! It baffles me.
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He's a handsome boy.Β Beautiful flying picture.Β
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