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I shot these near my house a couple days ago. The kites are kind of a permanent fixture there, which I love. A lot of Red Shoulder Hawks, some kestrels, and occasional other raptors hunt here, in the American River Parkway. Makes for good birding. I even took a 4 hour workshop yesterday on 'bird communication'. Hoping it'll help me get better shots, but what I really need is bigger glass. These are cropped, taken with a Canon 7D and a 70-200 f4/IS + a 1.4x extender. I see and shoot a lot of kites, but I hadn't really captured the true beauty of one yanking and flinging the juicy guts from a mouse (may its soul RIP) this well before.
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Topic - western white tailed kite has lunch with a mouse - stan2 13:11:35 03/06/17 (17)
- Ok, my bird shot contribution, my only one. - free.ranger 06:42:03 03/07/17 (1)
- cool. winking even. - stan2 10:55:14 03/07/17 (0)
- RE: Our Swallow Tailed Kite is a clopse relative - kitch29 04:38:20 03/07/17 (3)
- Wow. Made me flinch and want to wear a hard hat. nt - free.ranger 06:32:43 03/07/17 (1)
- full size seagulls on Florida beachs dive bomb anyone.. and - 3+4=5 10:46:04 03/07/17 (0)
- RE: Our Swallow Tailed Kite is a clopse relative - FenderLover 06:04:53 03/07/17 (0)
- RE: western white tailed kite has lunch with a mouse - bjh 20:35:21 03/06/17 (0)
- Those are great. Nice sequence. - free.ranger 17:41:09 03/06/17 (1)
- RE: sequence. - stan2 09:00:27 03/07/17 (0)
- Niches leading to similar outcomes after millions of trials! ? - Timbo in Oz 15:32:44 03/06/17 (2)
- thanks, Tim.. - stan2 16:31:40 03/06/17 (1)
- We've had a family group of tem up on Mt Taylor for as long as we've been here, )30 years! - Timbo in Oz 16:42:51 03/06/17 (0)
- RE: I take note of how the kite tosses the large intestine out... - user510 14:42:15 03/06/17 (2)
- yeah.. was that ugly or what!? nt - stan2 16:32:24 03/06/17 (1)
- Guess one reason why humans gut fish and other meats - FenderLover 19:21:07 03/06/17 (0)
- RE: western white tailed kite has lunch with a mouse - FenderLover 13:38:54 03/06/17 (1)
- and the coyotes and rattlesnakes get some of the rest - stan2 16:33:38 03/06/17 (0)