Gyrfalcon

I was fortunate to be invited by a falconer to photograph his gyrfalcon.

As usual, best of plans never ever work well. The city just got dumped with a heavy snow fall and the temperature was minus 27 degrees.

It was a sight to behold watching the gyrfalcon take off in the air.

Then all of a sudden, it went into a stoop and found a prey.

Great timing on this shot! So who was hunting who? haha..

Just need to fix the whiteout between the birds. Add a backdrop ad life is good.

Amazing capture Mao...
Was this in Alberta?...Keith & Peter???

great timing Mao, that Gyrfalcon is beautiful.

Great shot, Mao. I would love to see what happened next

Amazing shot. It looks they're having a race.

Great timing on that shot.

Great shot, I can imagine the speech bubble "So you want to race heh!"

Ah, dinner on the wing. Gotcha.

While you were freezing your buns, I was thinking about you, buddy.

Have a safe trip, south and say high to the guys for me.

Whoa........

Nice shot Mao. I can't blame him for eyeing the pheasant as they are mighty tasty.