...A collection of my favorite photos of the day...
December 21, 2009
COOPER'S HAWK
Saturday, we had an unexpected visitor outside the kitchen window. I literally crawled in my robe down the kitchen steps to grab my camera. It was a dark snowy day here and he was hungry, so he stayed around for a while. Clutching a young cardinal that it just caught (off of my feeder I presume!!!), he stared at me through the glass..I NEED to clean the window! Then jumped to the stump about 5 feet away to eat his meal. These are 3 of the photos...I took 243 in all, including a few minutes of video! Ok, I know, I over did it a bit, but I wanted to make sure I got it. I have some really neat shots of the meal, which when he finished, about a half hour later, all that was left was the beak and the tail feathers...other feathers were tossed into the air and disappeared. Quite interesting to watch.
Good thing this is a bird hawk not a squirrel hawk!!!!!
I also have about 1500 Florida photos to sort through yet. I can't see detail well enough on the laptop screen to know which ones are the best, so it is a task for the big iMac here at home.. At least I have some photos to share with you all in the coming holiday weeks.
COOPER'S HAWK
Saturday, we had an unexpected visitor outside the kitchen window. I literally crawled in my robe down the kitchen steps to grab my camera. It was a dark snowy day here and he was hungry, so he stayed around for a while. Clutching a young cardinal that it just caught (off of my feeder I presume!!!), he stared at me through the glass..I NEED to clean the window! Then jumped to the stump about 5 feet away to eat his meal. These are 3 of the photos...I took 243 in all, including a few minutes of video! Ok, I know, I over did it a bit, but I wanted to make sure I got it. I have some really neat shots of the meal, which when he finished, about a half hour later, all that was left was the beak and the tail feathers...other feathers were tossed into the air and disappeared. Quite interesting to watch.
Good thing this is a bird hawk not a squirrel hawk!!!!!
I also have about 1500 Florida photos to sort through yet. I can't see detail well enough on the laptop screen to know which ones are the best, so it is a task for the big iMac here at home.. At least I have some photos to share with you all in the coming holiday weeks.
December 21, 2009
COOPER'S HAWK
Saturday, we had an unexpected visitor outside the kitchen window. I literally crawled in my robe down the kitchen steps to grab my camera. It was a dark snowy day here and he was hungry, so he stayed around for a while. Clutching a young cardinal that it just caught (off of my feeder I presume!!!), he stared at me through the glass..I NEED to clean the window! Then jumped to the stump about 5 feet away to eat his meal. These are 3 of the photos...I took 243 in all, including a few minutes of video! Ok, I know, I over did it a bit, but I wanted to make sure I got it. I have some really neat shots of the meal, which when he finished, about a half hour later, all that was left was the beak and the tail feathers...other feathers were tossed into the air and disappeared. Quite interesting to watch.
Good thing this is a bird hawk not a squirrel hawk!!!!!
I also have about 1500 Florida photos to sort through yet. I can't see detail well enough on the laptop screen to know which ones are the best, so it is a task for the big iMac here at home.. At least I have some photos to share with you all in the coming holiday weeks.
COOPER'S HAWK
Saturday, we had an unexpected visitor outside the kitchen window. I literally crawled in my robe down the kitchen steps to grab my camera. It was a dark snowy day here and he was hungry, so he stayed around for a while. Clutching a young cardinal that it just caught (off of my feeder I presume!!!), he stared at me through the glass..I NEED to clean the window! Then jumped to the stump about 5 feet away to eat his meal. These are 3 of the photos...I took 243 in all, including a few minutes of video! Ok, I know, I over did it a bit, but I wanted to make sure I got it. I have some really neat shots of the meal, which when he finished, about a half hour later, all that was left was the beak and the tail feathers...other feathers were tossed into the air and disappeared. Quite interesting to watch.
Good thing this is a bird hawk not a squirrel hawk!!!!!
I also have about 1500 Florida photos to sort through yet. I can't see detail well enough on the laptop screen to know which ones are the best, so it is a task for the big iMac here at home.. At least I have some photos to share with you all in the coming holiday weeks.
