Birds of Prey, 56k warning, many pics

GREAPER · May 12, 2007

Today I had a chance to go to an open house at a local wildlife refuge.

I got to photograph many of their educational birds. These are birds that cannot survive in the wild.

I hope you enjoy them.

American Kestrel

A red Shouldered Hawk

A Saw-Whet Owl

A Great Horned Owl

A Peregrine Falcon

A Barred Owl

A Short Eared Owl

An Immature American Bald Eagle

HEY! WHo You callin Immature!!!?

Thanks for lookin.

Brian

Maestro · May 12, 2007

Excellent portraits, full of detail and good color balance in all!

CookieS · May 12, 2007

Very Nice, beautiful subjects !

Khaos · May 12, 2007

Great set. I really like the lighting of the first two and the comp of the perigrine and the last one.

Ann McRae · May 13, 2007

Beautiful portraits, Brian. Love the feather detail on the second, and love the attitude of the eagle!!!
And of course I love owls!
ann

BIG BROTHER · May 13, 2007

An outstanding series of Head and Shoulder shots

_____
Jim

bigpix · May 13, 2007

just great...... the last one stands out......

dallas · May 13, 2007

I love the close crops of these beautiful birds. Excellent.

DavidTO · May 13, 2007

Very nice, Brian.

kdog · May 13, 2007

Nice set of raptor portraits there, Brian.

It might be my imagination, but they look almost a little sad, or at least a bit resigned to their fate. Regardless, it's nice to see them in such detail.

Regards,
-joel

GREAPER · May 13, 2007

Thx for the kind words evryone.

I had not thought of them as looking sad until now, but I guess I can see it. It helps to remember that these birds would all b dead if they were not in captivity. Staving to death is a rough way to go.

I almost deleted the last eagle shot due to the missing eye. He got hit by a train no less. It's hard to believe a bird that can fly would let itself get hit by a train.

I copied and flipped and pasted the eye from his left on to his right, and did a little blending etc. I think it looks ok.