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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: ivarhusa on September 19, 2010, 02:08:46 PM

Title: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: ivarhusa on September 19, 2010, 02:08:46 PM: I was out coyote hunting Saturday on some open FFTH ground in eastern Washington, and came across an interesting scene. A great horned owl was being hectored by a northern harrier hawk. He would swoop down at the larger bird with his talons out. Sorry, no pictures of that.

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These aren't calender-quality images, but is fun to capture them as I hunt, especially since I didn't shoot anything else that day! I guess I am a successful predator hunter, after all.
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: turkey buster on September 19, 2010, 02:21:19 PM: nice pic's
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: Timberstalker on September 19, 2010, 03:17:19 PM: Ivar,
It is amazing what you see when you are out calling.
Did they come into your call?
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 19, 2010, 03:24:03 PM: Cool pics ivar :tup:
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: ivarhusa on September 19, 2010, 06:22:56 PM: I chanced upon these birds as I was driving along a gravel road. First I saw the owl- real close, almost in the windshield. It flew back the direction I'd come from, so I got out, grabbed the camera from the back of my rig and drove back down the road to see if I could get some pictures, ultimately, about a half mile. I was just lucky that he chose not to fly away from the road. Here's a pic I grabbed before he got around the bend (one of several times!)

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Later the hawk got into the picture.

I also saw three fork-horned bucks while chasing the wily coyote. This was only the second time I'd seen a buck while holding a centerfire rifle in my hand. (I don't get around much.) I had cross hairs on one of them long enough that a shot was possible (had it been in-season, etc). Yeah, and I was carrying a .204 Ruger. Not much of a deer gun. 40gr of 'devastation' :)
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: saylean on September 22, 2010, 05:59:46 PM: Cool pic of that hawk/owl....awesome situation to capture.
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: hirshey on September 22, 2010, 07:55:53 PM: VERY cool photos! Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: boneaddict on September 23, 2010, 05:59:05 AM: Nice captures Ivar.
Title: Re: Fresh Predator pictures (OK, they are birds)
Post by: seth30 on September 23, 2010, 06:39:20 AM: I saw a documentary about that once. They say that a nesting bird with chicks will not allow another bird of prey into its territory for fear of loss of a food source. In that documentary a Red Tailed Hawk was whooping on every owl, and crow that came near its farm field.