I was out yesterday morning at a small local wildlife reserve (Sepulveda Basin here in LA) that is just coming back to life population wise after a fire a couple of years ago. I was there for quite a while hoping to catch one - or more - of the seven osprey's present diving for a fish (one did finally dive right in front of me and did catch a fish and I just missed it -- see pic). But that's okay, was the first chance I've ever had at such a thing and I'll do better in the future.
The point of the post is that there was a also rare - for the area - dark morph red tailed hawk hanging around and at one point I looked up and it was coming straight at me. I mean straight at me at eye level. I didn't even try to pick up my camera as I watched it come in, go just over and right next to my head and then fly through a small opening between tree branches behind me.
I surely would have liked to have head some eye level straight in hawk shots, especially of a rare bird, but that feeling of it coming towards me, whooshing by my head and flying through that opening would not have happened with the camera to my eye so I'll take the experience/feeling of that over the pic. Next time though...
The point of the post is that there was a also rare - for the area - dark morph red tailed hawk hanging around and at one point I looked up and it was coming straight at me. I mean straight at me at eye level. I didn't even try to pick up my camera as I watched it come in, go just over and right next to my head and then fly through a small opening between tree branches behind me.
I surely would have liked to have head some eye level straight in hawk shots, especially of a rare bird, but that feeling of it coming towards me, whooshing by my head and flying through that opening would not have happened with the camera to my eye so I'll take the experience/feeling of that over the pic. Next time though...
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