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Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:16:20 PM

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A Sandhill Crane glides overhead

Golden-crowned SparrowHawk

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L2D2 Sunday, February 5, 2012 6:33:17 AM

Still amazes me how those lare birds cam get ;oft pff amd stau om tje aor/

RobinRobinL Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:36:36 AM

Linda, yeah, it amazes me too! They sure are something to watch flying!

Adele BrandSittingFox Monday, February 6, 2012 6:49:56 PM

Vulture-like wings, almost.

RobinRobinL Monday, February 6, 2012 7:01:23 PM

Adele, it was gliding! Two of them were chasing each other about. Or I should say, one was chasing the other. I think it was probably our local family. Dad chasing jr away. It's almost nesting time so they will put the run on him so they can nest again.
This gliding was after the chase. Probably the old man catching his breath!

Loiscakkleberrylane Tuesday, February 7, 2012 2:42:22 PM

Great shot! I saw one Saturday flying in too, but the sky was too bright and no time to change settings so all I got was a dark shape against the sky.

RobinRobinL Tuesday, February 7, 2012 5:57:36 PM

Lois, this one was kind of blown too! It was against the sun. It's hard to get everything adjusted to what you think it should be in the seconds that you have to do it before the birds long gone.
I have lots of shots of birds flying away from me! lol

Loiscakkleberrylane Wednesday, February 8, 2012 9:12:14 PM

I wish I had a dime for every "back-end" shot I have!bigsmile

L2D2 Thursday, February 9, 2012 3:13:15 AM

Robin, just to mention the Snowy Owls. You mentioned that you don't normally see more than one snowy owl per season or something on that order. I just saw a documentary this weekend about someplace in the US that is having an unusually heavy influx of Snowy Owls, so they appear to be moving their feeding grounds and territory to new places. This photographer caught photos of about a dozen in one spot. Not sure of the location, but believe it was somewhere in Washington State, or Minnesota. Anyway, some location where Snowy Owls aren't normally seen in numbers. Would be interesting to research the reasons for their change of locations.

RobinRobinL Thursday, February 9, 2012 8:00:12 AM

Linda, yes indeed! From what I understand about them around here, they tend to run on a 6 to 8 year schedule. This apparently coincides with the number of Lemming in the arctic! Poor year for lemmings, then they have to head south to survive the winter.

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