Title: Rob Palmer - amazing wildlife photographer
Post by: ezsha on 08-May-11, 12:25:07 AM
Last year, Rob Palmer brought you the photos of the playful burrowing owl brothers (http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=3217.0) in Colorado.
His website, titled falconphotos.com (http://www.falconphotos.com/), is full of fantastic pictures!
For example, a peregrine going after ducks,
a young moose,
and battling bald eagles.
Enjoy!
His website, titled falconphotos.com (http://www.falconphotos.com/), is full of fantastic pictures!
For example, a peregrine going after ducks,
a young moose,
and battling bald eagles.
Enjoy!
Title: Re: Rob Palmer - amazing wildlife photographer
Post by: Annette on 08-May-11, 01:15:39 AM
:bow:
Title: Re: Rob Palmer - amazing wildlife photographer
Post by: MAK on 08-May-11, 05:41:56 AM
:bravo:
Title: Re: Rob Palmer - amazing wildlife photographer
Post by: Shaky on 08-May-11, 09:31:53 AM
For example, a peregrine going after ducks,
After looking at this picture, I think a duck could fly faster if it flew backwards.
Title: Re: Rob Palmer - amazing wildlife photographer
Post by: ezsha on 08-May-11, 09:54:45 PM
For example, a peregrine going after ducks,
After looking at this picture, I think a duck could fly faster if it flew backwards.
You reminded me of a shadow study done sometime before 1959... I found the following quote (http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~mjoseph/c-guerin.html):
Quote
In The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology (New York: Viking, 1959), Joseph Campbell recounts a curious phenomenon of animal behavior. Newly hatched chickens, bits of egg-shells still clinging to their tails, will dart for cover when a hawk flies overhead: yet they remain unaffected by other birds. Furthermore, a wooden model of a hawk, drawn forward along a wire above their coop, will send them scurrying (if the model is pulled backward, however, there is no response)
If I remember correctly, the wooden model going forward threw a shadow that looked like a raptor, and got a huge defensive response; going backward, it threw a shadow that looked like a duck and got no response...
Animal transformers... in addition to speeding up, it change species if it flies backwards? A 'duck hawk' being pursued by a 'hawk' duck? :D