Posted by Ben Gardner on October 21, 2009 at 5:47 AM
Welcome to NPN. Nice first image, only a slight shame that the perch is not the most attractive thing in the world. Some nice shots in the Flickr sequence to.
Posted by Jeff Harrison on October 21, 2009 at 6:48 AM
Well fancy seeing you here Hi Andy and welcome to NPN/UKNP
You know how I feel about captives so suffice to say that I find both the post and the rather bright skyline distracting.
Posted by Andy Elliott on October 21, 2009 at 8:09 AM
Jeff
Well, hopefully we can see some wild things soon! See you in an hour!
Just as a bit of info, your post can be up to 720 pixels in its longest dimension.
T
Posted by Andy Elliott on October 21, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Ben
Thanks - I find the captives a useful place to practice technique, in particular, tracking moving birds. They are well cared for at this particular centre and do have a good success rate for returning birds to wild that can be as well as caring for those who cannot be released. Ideally, I would prefer not to see these birds being commercially bred and being kept as pets.
..mainly as it is so difficult to capture such fast falcons in flight.
Andy
Posted by Andy Elliott on October 21, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Tom
Slight laziness, but as I was using flickr to host the image, that is the smallest size below the maximum size.
Regards
Andy
Posted by Paul Ashton on October 21, 2009 at 1:27 PM
What's a Raptor foundation? I thought they evolved several million years ago and as a result of natural selection and survival of the fittest several of them were still around today.
Posted by Andy Elliott on October 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM
http://www.raptorfoundation.org.uk/
Posted by Paul Ashton on October 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Thanks for the address Andy. No further comment from me.
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All feedback gratefully received.
Thanks
Andy
You know how I feel about captives
Well, hopefully we can see some wild things soon! See you in an hour!
Andy
Just as a bit of info, your post can be up to 720 pixels in its longest dimension.
T
Thanks - I find the captives a useful place to practice technique, in particular, tracking moving birds. They are well cared for at this particular centre and do have a good success rate for returning birds to wild that can be as well as caring for those who cannot be released. Ideally, I would prefer not to see these birds being commercially bred and being kept as pets.
My favourite of this set is this image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olympusandy/4030232016/in/set-72157622502823457/
..mainly as it is so difficult to capture such fast falcons in flight.
Andy
Slight laziness, but as I was using flickr to host the image, that is the smallest size below the maximum size.
Regards
Andy