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Old 01-10-2006, 12:50 PM   #1
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Tried to get close, but if flew off. Guess i'm not very sneaky.
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Old 01-10-2006, 12:50 PM   #2
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Wow. Pretty f*cking cool.

I've seen hawks before, but that's about it.
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Old 01-10-2006, 12:52 PM   #3
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We've got a family of them who live in the trees near my house. There are always eaglephiles staying at the motel taking pictures.
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Old 01-10-2006, 12:53 PM   #4
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WOW!! That's gorgeous!
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Old 01-10-2006, 02:51 PM   #5
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Old 01-10-2006, 03:04 PM   #6
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They're always kicking fish ass.
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Old 01-10-2006, 03:19 PM   #7
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Nice shot! Who needs to be sneaky when you have a zoom button?
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Really nice photo! A stunning bird that is!
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Old 01-10-2006, 06:20 PM   #9
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Awesome photo, temps. Birds of prey always fill me with a sense of awe.

We have wedge-tailed eagles here.



A couple of years ago, I was driving to work and saw what I though was a small kangaroo standing on the road, eating some roadkill (which struck me as a little bizarre). As I got closer, I realised it was a wedge-tailed eagle. It also became apparent that it was not about to move out of the way for me, despite the fact that I was driving about a tonne of metal towards it at 120kmh. It played chicken with me and won, forcing me off the road to drive around it. Gotta respect that
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Old 01-10-2006, 06:32 PM   #10
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Man, they get big. I would have shooed it out of the road. Might have gotten hit by someone who wasn't paying as much attention as you. I'm always shooing turtles around here.
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Old 01-10-2006, 06:47 PM   #11
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I did actually think about it, but came to the conclusion that it probably wouldn't listen to me, considering it wouldn't move out of the way of a car bearing down on it. And it wasn't as if it didn't know I was there - it stared me down the whole way .

Besides, I was about 200kms outside of the city, and there were a couple of kilometres or straight road in front of it. I couldn't imagine a driver not seeing it.

And, truth be known, I was just a teensy bit scared of being shredded into little bloody pieces by its talons
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Old 01-10-2006, 06:50 PM   #12
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Please let me come to your country and see your birds with large talons!
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Old 01-10-2006, 07:08 PM   #13
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Hehe

You don't mind that they're wedge-tailed?
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Wow. That is amazing. Both of these shots. Birds of prey ARE stunning. I want to be reincarnated as one. That would be nice.
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Old 01-11-2006, 07:53 AM   #15
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The bugger was back again today. Didn't feel like stalking this time. Can you spot him!?

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Wow its like a game of Wheres Wally/Waldo?

...well it is if he just gave up on the whole hiding thing...
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Where's a shotgun when you need one?
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At that range, you'd need a rifle.
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Who needs a rifle? I could hit it with an orange from that distance
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I never seen one before
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