And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Elmo, I suspect a high quality camera with fast shutter speed shooting continuous frames.
That plus first spending time watching the birds to study their habits and territory. I bet the birds have a fairly set route dependent on time of day.
Morro Rock at Morro Bay, CA always has Peregrines. Watching them fly top cover then come screaming down to take another bird on the wing is very cool to watch. In the wink of an eye, nothing left but a cloud of feathers as the Falcon zoom climbs with his meal firmly grasped.
A nest box was placed on top of Kodak Tower, in Rochester NY, in 1995. Total peregrine offspring from that nest is 43. A 'Falcon Cam' was placed so the birds could be observed by the public.
He seems vaguely annnoyed.
ReplyDeletePeregrine, in what's known as a "stoop" in falconry. Clocked in dives in excess of 180 mph.
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How on Earth did the photographer get this photo???
DeleteWDS- Don't Peregrines have two eyelids, one for Standard mode and one for 'Dive Bomb' mode?
Elmo, I suspect a high quality camera with fast shutter speed shooting continuous frames.
DeleteThat plus first spending time watching the birds to study their habits and territory. I bet the birds have a fairly set route dependent on time of day.
Great theories, Anon. He's sure doing something right, to capture a shot like that one.
DeleteMorro Rock at Morro Bay, CA always has Peregrines. Watching them fly top cover then come screaming down to take another bird on the wing is very cool to watch. In the wink of an eye, nothing left but a cloud of feathers as the Falcon zoom climbs with his meal firmly grasped.
ReplyDeleteA nest box was placed on top of Kodak Tower, in Rochester NY, in 1995. Total peregrine offspring from that nest is 43. A 'Falcon Cam' was placed so the birds could be observed by the public.
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