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10/23/2004 11:25:49 AM · #1 |
Hi All.
this was taken as an opertunity as i was driving in Dublin this morning. could not belive what i saw as this bird took down the other bird. I was speechless for a moment.
Cheers
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10/23/2004 11:38:49 AM · #2 |
Nice capture. It has a purple cast that can be remove easily with auto colour correction in PS.
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10/23/2004 11:39:53 AM · #3 |
Way cool picture. I find many pluck sites, but I have never seen the actual hawk on its prey like this.
Hope you don't mind, but i found that the image had a blue cast. I played with the colour channels in a curves layer and this is what I got.
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10/23/2004 11:41:13 AM · #4 |
Great capture, peregrine ?
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10/23/2004 11:48:00 AM · #5 |
i have no idea what bird this is at all. i was just surpised to get a decent shot, must have 10 pics which were rubish.
I noticed the blue / purple cast also but did not know how to remove in PSP8, will play around later.
Thanks for the feedback, nice to know i can take a semi decent picture once in a while. lol
Cheers
Message edited by author 2004-10-23 11:48:50. |
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10/23/2004 12:02:40 PM · #6 |
| wow, talk about the right place at the right time |
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10/23/2004 12:14:11 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by peecee:
Great capture, peregrine ? |
I agree on the great capture! But I do not think this is a Peregrine as they normally have very distinctive facial markings. My guess would be a Merlin or young Cooper's Hawk. But being from the west coast of the US I do not know the birds of Ireland.
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10/23/2004 12:28:08 PM · #8 |
Great picture, that's what you get when you carry your camera!
Been doing a bit of checking and looks like you caught a photo of a Kestrel, probably a female. The blue head rules out Peregrine. Merlin has blue head and back, very distinctive. Goshawk has brown head with white streak above the eye.
One other possibility is a Sparrowhawk.
Still it's a super photograph, well done! |
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10/23/2004 12:29:49 PM · #9 |
Hope you did not mind. I tried to take out the blue color. By the way nice photo.
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10/23/2004 12:36:31 PM · #10 |
The bird is a Falcon. A wonderful picture!!
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10/23/2004 01:51:54 PM · #11 |
After a quick look at my birds of europe, it most resembles a sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) esp the crossbody stripes and facial markings.
But since that is not a bird I'm familiar with I could easily be wrong.
Very nice capture though. What bird is the prey? Dove?
Did you get the chase and capture?
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10/23/2004 01:59:43 PM · #12 |
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10/23/2004 02:00:13 PM · #13 |
hi,
i was not quick enough for the chase. just the capture. must say i am well pleased with this.
After a bit of digging I think it is a Cooper's Hawk! The prey was a pigeon if I recall
Message edited by author 2004-10-23 14:04:18. |
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10/23/2004 02:09:36 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Brookied:
hi,
i was not quick enough for the chase. just the capture. must say i am well pleased with this.
After a bit of digging I think it is a Cooper's Hawk! The prey was a pigeon if I recall |
And a Cooper's is an Accipiter which matches up with a few of our guesses. Both Falcons and Accipiters hunt birds. |
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10/23/2004 02:39:54 PM · #15 |
Great photo! I remember seeing a similar scene back many years ago up in Belfast! But no camera back then. I was quick to remove my baby and pram into the house though!
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10/23/2004 05:03:12 PM · #16 |
| Excellent capture! Everything is sharp as can be. Very well done. |
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10/23/2004 05:09:27 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Brookied:
hi,
i was not quick enough for the chase. just the capture. must say i am well pleased with this.
After a bit of digging I think it is a Cooper's Hawk! The prey was a pigeon if I recall |
Cooper's Hawk, in the UK?? possible, but unlikely.
Narrowed down to Sparrowhawk!! |
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10/23/2004 05:11:17 PM · #18 |
Cooper's Hawk is North American bird of prey!
Very doubtful in Ireland. |
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10/23/2004 05:58:58 PM · #19 |
| I'll stick to computers and cameras. I have no idea about birds lol |
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10/23/2004 06:08:55 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Brookied:
I'll stick to computers and cameras. I have no idea about birds lol |
That's the best way.
Just keep taking those kind of shots for us! :)) |
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10/23/2004 07:00:36 PM · #21 |
Excellent capture. Well done on having the presence of mind to snap it!
John |
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10/23/2004 07:40:00 PM · #22 |
| The hawk is definately an Accipitor, probably an European Sparrowhawk. Cooper's are strickly North American, extremely rare in Europe. The dead bird appears to be a dove of some sort, probably a Eurasian Collared Dove. Van |
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10/23/2004 07:47:55 PM · #23 |
| Ok - I'll go with the European's as I'm only a beginning birder in N. America. The Cooper's and the Sharp-shinned are our Accipiters here in Western Washington but I would have no idea what they would be in Europe. Sparrowhawk it is. |
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10/23/2004 09:17:26 PM · #24 |
Nice picture.It looks like a hawk not a falcon as below!
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