Why Oh Why

bfjr

Can anyone tell me why they only come out on deary days and
then to add insult to injury miles of hiking and volumes of research just to show up on my Street!! :rolleyes :dunno

Ah never mind I'll just take and show the shot :ivar

Dee

hehe -- just to annoy you -- because they can! Great photos too!

I'm about 20 minutes from Half Moon Bay. Heading south toward Half Moon Bay we see red tailed hawks on the street lights and telephone poles all the time.

I was reading another forum and this one person drove over 4 hours and spent the night in Half Moon Bay just to visit this one beach to photograph the hawks.

So, on a nice dreary day Ed and I drove to the beach. I not only saw the hawks, but a huge white bird with a yellow beak walked towards me, darted into some weeds and came up with some sort of rodent in it's beak! Then this huge gray bird appeared. Hawks were flying about. So I guess it is a birder's paradise, right in my back yard (well, almost). And, the parking is free, it's on a bluff overlooking the ocean.

So what was the problem? It was so darn awful gray fog gloomy. I haven't processed the photos yet, but I was "machine gunning" it and I have the entire rodent pecking series.

The fog was absolutely great for the big white bird, no blown out areas, but horrid on everything else.

Oh, right in town there are a pair of hawks that frequent a light post but I haven't tried to shoot them in awhile. They are kind of boring as they just sit...

I'm from the east coast and it's just so funny to me to see a hawk in a palm tree...

bfjr

Dee wrote:

hehe -- just to annoy you -- because they can! Great photos too!

I'm about 20 minutes from Half Moon Bay. Heading south toward Half Moon Bay we see red tailed hawks on the street lights and telephone poles all the time.

I was reading another forum and this one person drove over 4 hours and spent the night in Half Moon Bay just to visit this one beach to photograph the hawks.

So, on a nice dreary day Ed and I drove to the beach. I not only saw the hawks, but a huge white bird with a yellow beak walked towards me, darted into some weeds and came up with some sort of rodent in it's beak! Then this huge gray bird appeared. Hawks were flying about. So I guess it is a birder's paradise, right in my back yard (well, almost). And, the parking is free, it's on a bluff overlooking the ocean.

So what was the problem? It was so darn awful gray fog gloomy. I haven't processed the photos yet, but I was "machine gunning" it and I have the entire rodent pecking series.

The fog was absolutely great for the big white bird, no blown out areas, but horrid on everything else.

Oh, right in town there are a pair of hawks that frequent a light post but I haven't tried to shoot them in awhile. They are kind of boring as they just sit...

I'm from the east coast and it's just so funny to me to see a hawk in a palm tree...

Man sounds like the place to be, but yeah that gray were getting this week . I thought that was back in June ??

Oh please work some of yours up and let's have a look see

I'm not from the East, but still funny to me too

PrescottPhotog

bfjr wrote:

Can anyone tell me why they only come out on deary days and
then to add insult to injury miles of hiking and volumes of research just to show up on my Street!!

I think that goes to the old saying.. "One in the palm tree is worth two in the boonies". Dreary or not you caught some nice action.. The ones around here just soar all day long way to high to shoot.

dbaker1221

maybe they're stalking you

raptorcaptor

They also like showing up at around 1pm, when you have nice harsh shadows! Like the one in the second post, has that I'm better than everyone kind on look!

Giphsub

PrescottPhotog wrote:

I think that goes to the old saying.. "One in the palm tree is worth two in the boonies". Dreary or not you caught some nice action.. The ones around here just soar all day long way to high to shoot.

Nice pics

Maestro

Believe me! I understand. Let us all wallow in sorrow because I too have a whole set of feathered friends that come out in either the very early morning with practically no light or in the late evening with again no light. I won't even mention the ones that come out in the bright of the day but will only perch so that I must photograph them with the sun in my face and behind them. Can we say back lit? :bash

Having said that, I'd be more than satisfied with the perched pic.

BigAl

Nice set Ben! It always happens like that - to me usually when both cameras have the wrong lenses on...

riddim_maker

"Can anyone tell me why they only come out on dreary days"

And when they do appear it's on a light post or soaring out of reach:cry
I guess we need to plan a trip to the bay area Ben
You did a great job in spite of the flat light

Dee

It was a dark and gloomy foggy day that late afternoon...
Yes Ben, I thought our "summer" weather was long gone, but alas it's been cold, foggy, damp and gloomy at the coast.

Here is the big white bird and the little rodent...

First it stalked and made a dive...



It caught the little rodent "and" a branch! What a talented big white bird!



The big white bird walked away with it's catch. I didn't have enough "machine guns" to see the final devouring of such rodent, nor how the bird got rid of the branch.

Giphsub

Nice job!

toddharmon

Beautiful shots! Nice job!

bfjr

PrescottPhotog wrote:

I think that goes to the old saying.. "One in the palm tree is worth two in the boonies". Dreary or not you caught some nice action.. The ones around here just soar all day long way to high to shoot.

Thanks Chris
I've come to the conclusion that it was truly a gift that Nice Birdie came for
a visit :ivar

bfjr

dbaker1221 wrote:

maybe they're stalking you

Who little Old ME

bfjr

raptorcaptor wrote:

They also like showing up at around 1pm, when you have nice harsh shadows! Like the one in the second post, has that I'm better than everyone kind on look!

thanks Glenn

bfjr

Giphsub wrote:

Nice pics

Thanks Mike

bfjr

Maestro wrote:

Believe me! I understand. Let us all wallow in sorrow because I too have a whole set of feathered friends that come out in either the very early morning with practically no light or in the late evening with again no light. I won't even mention the ones that come out in the bright of the day but will only perch so that I must photograph them with the sun in my face and behind them. Can we say back lit? :bash

Having said that, I'd be more than satisfied with the perched pic.

See I just knew when I posted this I'd find plenty of "GOOD" company

Harryb

Excellent captures in adverse lighting Ben.

Its a well known fact that birds get training in how to be in the worst light possible. Half the Viera Wetlands are backlit in the AM and the other half is backlit in the PM. You can see the birds migrating in midday to the backlit half of the wetlands. :bash

bfjr

Dee wrote:

Yes Ben, I thought our "summer" weather was long gone, but alas it's been cold, foggy, damp and gloomy at the coast.

Here is the big white bird and the little rodent...

First it stalked and made a dive...



It caught the little rodent "and" a branch! What a talented big white bird!



The big white bird walked away with it's catch. I didn't have enough "machine guns" to see the final devouring of such rodent, nor how the bird got rid of the branch.

Hi Dee
Didn't want this post to fall away without 1st thanking you for sharing.
Yep 128 Gray, and wouldn't you know it on the day I had to go back to work it got really nice

Still I would have taken these shots anytime I get a chance to witness

And thanks all for your comments ......... and ........... Harry are ya back??
If so you folks need to clean it up now and watch your "P's & Q's" :ivar

Harryb

bfjr wrote:

And thanks all for your comments ......... and ........... Harry are ya back??
If so you folks need to clean it up now and watch your "P's & Q's" :ivar

Yep, I'm back and I would have expected that you were watching those "P"s &"Q"s while I was gone.

I've reviewed the posts made in my absence and was pleased to notice the absence of any shots of a particularly foul rodent.

Giphsub

What might that be? Are you referring to these??