April Fools

Since today is April fools day I had to do something different. I also downloaded a photoshop like thing called gimp. It is awesome and I had a lot of fun playing around with it. I was testing it out on some of my photos. I did some cross genetics on my photos and invented three new species of raptors!!!! We have the rough legged eagle, the keserlin, and the short tail hawk( which is a real species i think)... Well i think they are funny. APRIL FOOLS


Below is the infamous Rough Legged Eagle ( bald eagle+rough leg)


Of course the Short tailed Hawk (redtail+Short eared)


My favorite the keserlin( Merlin+Kestrel)

Spring migration

Hawks are continuing to move northward to their breeding grounds. Sunday at Hook mountain Hawk watch we got a fair number of hawks. We had a merlin, but probably a mile over head.....you can tell by the horrible shot. At Croton Point park there are kestrels on the landfill. I chased one male around. They are such annoying birds to photograph. You can never get close to them. Hope you like the pics :)

Below are the kestrel pictures, Yep all of them is him flying away from me

Below is a immature red shouldered hawk migrating over hawk, They have windows on their wings which seperates them from red tails.

And here is that horrible merlin shot i was talking about.

Kestrels on the Highway

Going on a major highway i saw a kestrel perched on the wires. There most common place to see a kestrel. Since it was on a major Highway it was more comfortable as we pulled up to it. I got to take some perched pictures and some cool pictures of it jumping off the wires. They are the prettiest birds, but definitely one of the hardest to get great pictures of.