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Cypselurus — Lord of the Loch
Published: 2013-11-02 08:33:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 531; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 2
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The Osprey, or Fish Hawk, is widespread across the world, found in almost all the continents except Antarctica. The species feeds almost entirely upon fish, and has developed specially scaled talons with sharp, scale-gripping claws for catching their aquatic prey.--------------
I chose to draw this particular bird for one of my good friends, , as a sort of good-luck-wish sort of gesture 
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This drawing is so much dynamic and natural!
I love it!
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Very delightfully done imagery, made all the more terrific by the background insight of a magnificent winged creature. Always so compelling to both see these raptors in the wild and note the way they have become so precisely adapted to making a living off the land -- or waterways in this predator's particular case.
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Thank you!
Yeah, they're beautiful in the wild...we have them as rare visitors in Shanghai, but they were common back in Canada- I remember one soaring high over the plumes of Niagara Falls...
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I love ospreys, we have a pair on the river near our house and another pair at the downtown river. ^^ *jealous of your perfect wing feathers AGGGGGG* XD
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.o. that's so lucky! o.o We don't get any here...well, almost none. They're rare winter passerbys or migrants...haven't seen one for around 2 years.
Thank you~ XP
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yeah it's always nice to see them fishing ^^ welcome
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This is really wonderful, thank you! I love the amount of lovely detail you put into it, very striking. The markings on the bird are so amazing and lifelike. The pose is really awesome and quite fierce. I really love how some of the flight feathers are curled, very realistic and cute. The texture is quite superb and I love the fierce sharpness of the bill. The tail is very elegant-looking and pretty, all fanned out. The background is also amazingly detailed and the shading is really realistic on all of it. Excellent work and thank you again!
Meh, Great Blue Herons are hard. Even when you see them on a regular basis you spend too much time trying to figure out why some of them look brown and why one looked actually blue. Then, there's the marbled, fluffy breeding plumage... Too hard.
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Thank you! 
No prob! ^^
Yeahh...I always manage to get the breeding plumes wrong. Makes them look as if they're trailing cobwebs. o.o
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You're quite welcome. You did wonderfully with the movement placement. I also like what you named the piece. I'm a sucker for Gaelic sometimes.
Yeah, I'll bet it's confusing. Y'know, sometimes they actually do look like they're trailing cobwebs to me.
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Thanks~
Yeah, true~
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Oh wow that detail is amazing! ;o;
Though I thought it was a peregrine falcon at first, lol...
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Thank you!
Yeah, I couldn't get that distinctive piebald pattern thing right...
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The detail in this is amazing! I love the feathers and the attention to detail - brilliant
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