Birds of Prey

[mrgubby]

Spent this morning with my son at the Old Warden Bird of Prey Centre (http://www.shuttleworth.org/birdofprey/index.htm) . You can get pretty close to the Birds & the flying display is excellent :).

Managed to get a few snaps (light was bad & I was useless:() .

A Vulture (nastius biterus)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/bird/vulture.jpg

A Owl (cuteus barnis)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/bird/owl2.jpg

Another Owl (Flapius Eaglis)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/bird/owl1.jpg

And one to show how close they get , I actualy got hit by wings 4 times during the flying demo :)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/bird/close.jpg

I'll have to go back on a sunnier day armed with a faster shutter speed :bang:

[minimeeze]

The first shot of the vulture is great :)

[Hacker]

The vulture shot is Ace! :clap: :clap:

[Torpedo]

LOL, love your descriptions.
The vulture (Rueppells Griffon Vulture ?) best out the 3.
I've got quite a few shots of BoPs, and keep meaning to sort them out and put some on here.

[mfwild13]

Love the vulture too but maybe you could crop it a bit tighter (top and right) IMHO.
Not sure you got the Latin spelling quite right though ;)

[mrgubby]

Thanks for the comments :) . Funny thing with the vulture is that I took it to prove to my son that you wouldn't see the mesh :D

Wish this one came out as clear :(

Yet another Owl (bigus scareous buggerus)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/bird/owl3.jpg

I never did Latin at school , it's a piece of **** :lol:

[RickMezza]

Must agree...the vulture is great. Well done

[KenCo]

The first is very nice but I aslo like 3 (Flapius Eaglis) :thinking: looking into the camea on it's flypast.:thumbs:

[matty]

first 3 are very good, you have any noise removal software?

[mrgubby]

first 3 are very good, you have any noise removal software?

Yup , I've got noiseware but was a bit worried that it would destroy the feather detail . The shots were taken at ISO400 , will have to try again on a sunny day :)

[Torpedo]

Try it and see :) . I've taken loads @ ISO 1600 and ran them thru Noiseware without too much degradation.

[RobertP]

All been said already :)

Nice.

[busterboy]

Nice series and very sharp..;)

[PaulBoy]

All been said already :)

Nice.

What he said already (again) ... Excellent - Paul :thumbs:

[P-E]

Nice set particularly 1 & 3.

[Forbiddenbiker]

One and two for me, great feather detail. Love the fly passed owl looking into the lens. :thumbs:

[InaGlo]

:thumbs: ... and the Latin terminology is pretty good too!