Raptor Rapture

I Love Birds of Prey, and whilst I'd love to capture them in the wild, I don't have time at the moment to do that so I have to rely on shows for my fix. What that does, though, is give great opportunity for portraiture...here's a few of my BoP portraits from a couple of days out with the kids this weekend...

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Nicely done. Beautiful portraits, everyone of them!

Fantastic portraits.

Beautiful series.

Sharp head shots.

awesome!

thanks for sharing!

Wonderful series.

Lovely portraits!

SJC from VT wrote in post #15971351
Nicely done. Beautiful portraits, everyone of them!

2n10 wrote in post #15971401
Fantastic portraits.

A1original wrote in post #15971437
Beautiful series.

gary1952 wrote in post #15971463
Sharp head shots.

Darkevs wrote in post #15971896
awesome!

thanks for sharing!

Lester Wareham wrote in post #15972008
Wonderful series.

rrblint wrote in post #15972011
Lovely portraits!

Thank you all!

Lovely collection.

Great shots! I am confused by the 5th pictures title though ... Red-tailed Buzzard?

Stephen Stephen wrote in post #15972176
Lovely collection.

Thank you.

mak65 wrote in post #15972183
Great shots! I am confused by the 5th pictures title though ... Red-tailed Buzzard?

Might be wrong...mixed up. Any ideas?

They call hawks buzzards in the UK I believe.

Itsed65 wrote in post #15972350
They call hawks buzzards in the UK I believe.

Hmmm, we have Hawks and Buzzards, but maybe the red-tail hawk has a different name. More likely that I am confused, though...senior moments are coming more often these days!

Gorgeous shots!