Look Mom...I can fly too!

[Eric Diller]

Well the smaller Juvi finally fledged a few days back. First Mom shows how to brake for landing.....then little Juvi imitates her.......


1 mom

2 mom

3 Juvi

4 Juvi

 

[Ken Tanaka]

From Eric's excellent majestic images it's easy to understand how a similar strike pose of the Bald Eagle, another magnificent raptor, became the national symbol of the United States, bearing arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other.

 

[Rachel Foster]

My responses to Eric's images are so repetitive, I've decided to comment in a new way....

 

[Asher Kelman]

3 Juvi

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I like the better separation between the head and it's right wing compared to the previous image. Is this by chance or taken differently?

Asher

 

[Don Cohen]

An excellent sequence of flight shots - no nits to pick - very well done!

 

[Eric Diller]

3 Juvi

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I like the better separation between the head and it's right wing compared to the previous image. Is this by chance or taken differently?

Asher

got lucky!!

 

[Asher Kelman]

got lucky!!

Eric,

That's honest and fortunate!

Do these birds open their talons wide to be able to spear birds below or do the drop below them and then grab then from blow? I'm wondering because of the curve of the talons which seem perfect for grabbing but not piercing into the prey on rapid descent.

Asher

 

[Eric Diller]

Eric,

That's honest and fortunate!

Do these birds open their talons wide to be able to spear birds below or do the drop below them and then grab then from blow? I'm wondering because of the curve of the talons which seem perfect for grabbing but not piercing into the prey on rapid descent.

Asher

Well they hunt mostly fish. They dive bomb the water and grab the fish with their Talons! I have seen Osprey sit in the water for many seconds feeling around for the fish with his Talons!

 

[Jaime Johnson]

Well done Eric (as always).

 

[fahim mohammed]

Eric, At times all one can say is ' WOW '. I mean it. ' WOW'

Regards.

 

[Ruben Alfu]

Beautiful and spectacular. Yes, wow!