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Published: 2004-09-03 14:44:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 698; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 101
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Uhm..the title describes the point of view of a little mouse looking up into those big yellow eyes and thinking "oh for chrissakes, i'm his dinner, and I left the bloody water tap running."Or something like that.
Was taken in the camargue, its an 800km square area of preserved natural land. He gave me the creeps. Beautiful. But huge. And creepy. Very creepy. *shudder*
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The title reminds me of a poem I had to study back in school - "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes. There was a line that went "My manners are tearing off heads". Which, uh, seemed fitting for the description as the POV of the birdy. Well, it did when I looked at it. I'm not so sure now. But since I went to the hassle of looking it up, I'll post it anyway.
Nice photo, too.
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Goodness, that is one gorgeous bird!
Lovely shot you took, too. I absolutely love birds of prey. They're such awesome creatures, and since I live in the middle of a city, I rarely ever see one.
I like how the tones on his facial feathers(?) seem to play along with the shadows in the background.
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Great shot, colours are fantastic. The yellow in his eyes, crazy.
200mm? What lens did you use for this shot? If you don't mind me asking
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Ohhh ok thanks 
Went through some of your gallery yesterday, very well done
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Cool picture. I'm not a huge fan of birds myself.
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I SO want eyes like that! oh my god. I could just stare at someone and give them a heart attack. 
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Well you know, if david bowie can then i'm sure you can too!
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And at the top of his evolution... excellent capture.
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ohmy
i have been poked
*gasp*
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get used to it meester. *poke*
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this is your best shot, was it taken in the wild? Over expossed in the background though, but you can't help that.
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I deliberately overexposed the background cus I found it ugly, so i'd rather have white. Was in the camargue reserve.
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yeah the over expossed part in this photo doesn't look that bad. It just gives it more contrast and therefor makes the Bird stand out more. I'm just being picky. Did you take this pic in the wild?
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No it was caged but not man handled....in this camargue wild reserve in france.
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that is a beautiful bird
and the eyes are such a clear stunning yellow
most excellent capture.. thank you for sharing it
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Wow, that's a great lose-up! And with 200mm!? I would assume that you could not get that close to a wild bird or did you...? Even though one of my friends did just that and took a great picture of a wild gyr falcon - [link] with his pocket camera some 3 m! from the bird... I had to satisfy to 15 m a few days later - [link]
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The trick is to sneak through the bushes. You get lots of mosquito bites but its worth it. He was quite high up though. I got some of huge herons too, in flight, but they came out blurry unfortunately so i'll have to go back again.
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So it was wild after all! I must say that was a hell of a picture of a wild bird with 200mm lens 
My experience on mosquito repellant is that a way better alternative is just enough clothes and a mosquito hat. While I was taking 'Resting for awhile' - [link] I had literally thousands of mosquitos buzzing around me and no repellant would've helped me there
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wait wait wait, hold on I think I have the wrong end of the stick here...wild..he was in an aviary...but hes never been man handled..he was in a thin mesh aviary (which was a bit too small imo) but if he saw people he tried to fly away and hurt himself on the mesh..so you had to kind of creep up and not spook him out....
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It was difficult to wear a lot of clothing because it was about 45 degrees....
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OK... So you are not as good in sneaking as the best of thieves
I know the problem of temperature and mosquitos. It was only like 20 degrees when I took 'Resting fo awhile' but there were days when it was almost 30 degrees in shade and I had to be in the forest where all the mosquitos were. It was sweaty, but rather that then beeing sucked out of blood
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We used to have a wild bird of prey that used to land in our garden, just by the Rubinia tree, he'd land with his (or her?) kill, and sit there (on the ground) eating it for about 2 hours, absolutely stunning, we live right in the centre of a town of about 250,000 people, and i'm right next to a lorry yard, and yet we have a badger, fox, and bird of prey. Awesome! Too bad I haven't seen it since, especially since I have my new camera...I scared it last time
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You must have a nice garden then
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with full moon...
would kick every ass
(im not speaking my language, so i dont know if the "kick ass" thing is correct a this moment)
very amazing picture
you are very good at this
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Yes, ass kicking is good ^_^I never thought about the moon thing before..but its certainly a very interesting idea!
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waauw @_@, at first i thought you were secretly studying how to cg realistically during the time i was away and became super-duper awesome, cuz this looked like a painting at first ... and then i realized that it was a photograph and it's cuz you're a super-duper awesome photographer *_*
... i need to get my eyes checked xo
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nooooooo don't get your eyes checked cus then you'll see how ugly i am and you won't love me anymore ;;;____;;;
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i'll still love you saki, no matter how ugly you are ;_; ... coz you know, you're not really ugly, you just think so ;;_;; *sniffle*
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aaw jeeni *sniffle* I love your blindness ;3;
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Gorgeous shot, judging from the front this is definitately an Accipiter, which is the family of hawks, kites, and falcons. The light barring usually indicates either an immature specimen or a light morph. (morphs are birds that for various reasons change from the normal colour of their species, usually lighter or darker.) It's impossible to tell without being able to see the tail and wing shape, but I lean toward the kite family or the smaller hawks like the ferrangous hawk. Incredible shot though, you should submit it to the Hawk Conservation Institute or Audabon. Definitely a fave.
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Not sure about submitting though..i'm sure they have better photos
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LOL Birding is one of my many obsessions and I particularly like hawks. *looks sad* We have a gorgeous Coopers Hawk nesting near our house. I have a sneaking suspicion he ate my chicken. I saw him take one of the doves at the bird feeder and that was where Chicken liked to go to eat the seed the birds knocked out.
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aw but everyone has to go sometime, right? i'd think i'd rather get eaten by a hawk than...um...die in a horrible car wreck? i dunno. mebbe if i was a chicken i'd feel different O_o
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Hmm, I guess it would better than say a slow lingering illness or being burned or crushed. LOL
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ya gotta look on the bright side. i've always wanted to be fodder ^_^
O_O
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I've never heard anyone say that before! LOL
Teacher: What would you like to be when you grow up, Bobby?"
Bobby: Fodder.
I like it!
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beautiful!! great capture! i know its not easy catching birds perched and looking your way.
this is so sharp and clean too.
and the title is cute
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awesome *____* Makes me wish I had a better camera. (cause whenever I try to take a photo of a critter of any sort, they are so small, its hard to pick them out of the background c..c)
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