The Chase-Red Winged Blackbirds VS Red Tailed Hawk

Today i would like to share with you a chase I witnessed the other day while sitting on our front porch and watching and photographing birds at our feeder.

I noticed two Red Winged Blackbirds chasing my friend the Red Tailed Hawk about 1/4 mile away up high in the sky...so I grabbed my camera with the 70-300VR lens on it and began to record the chase....see photo's below and watch as the dramma unfolds...you can click on any image to enlarge for a better view.


The start of the chase..the Hawks soars and dives to elude those pesky Blackbirds.

Turning again and again...Blackbirds pecking at His tail.

Still , the chase continues, those pesky birds just will not quit.

Here they come again...screeching and diving, ever closer.

Now they are getting closer..but....do you notice the Hawk does not seem very worried about His ability to elude them?

Notice the bird at the top...coming in on a dive to try to pester the Hawk?

Well...I guess you can't blame a Bird for trying...but you have to admit that those Red Winged Blackbirds have alot of Gumption...trying to attack a Hawk that could eat them any time He so desires....but in the end...even they have to give up and surrender to the Superior flying ability of a Red Tailed Hawk...so the chase ends.....

Free at last, and as if to say thank you for recording that crazy attempt by the Blackbirds to try to chase me away....my friend the Red Tailed Hawk comes over towards me and circles above and calls back to me as I call to him.

Closer and closer overhead He comes as we converse in Hawk calls.

As a Pilot does in a Victory Roll with his plane...my Hawk Friend circles directly over my head calling out his Victory Song..."Free at Last"..as I respond with "Fly in Peace my friend"

Experiments in Digital Macro Photography

I decided to do a bit of experimenting with photographing some Wild Flowers at the back of our yard here behind the log cabin that I had planted in a 75 ft. long bed last year.

I chose the 105 Macro Nikon lens that I have for this experiment.

Below please view the results.....you may click on any image to enlarge to get a better view.

A strange combination of Red and White blooms all in the same small flower cluster, the size of a silver dollar.

A very tiny cluster of orange blooms..about the size of a Quarter

A loney little bloom with two dead blooms above it which I should have taken off before shooting

A fantastic Yellow bloom on tall stalks of deep green

I do not know the name of this Wild Flower, but it sure is beautiful




Same type of flower as above, only in White

Same White version of the flower above, except in shadow with sun light streaming through.

Cute , colorful Bachelor Button

This little bloom is the size of my little finger nail, proof..."good things come in small packages"

Now this one isn't a Wild Flower..it is a Day Lilly

This one also isn't a Wild Flower..I do not know the name of it..but it is planted just at the corner of our porch.

Fog Bank Morning

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I wanted to share with you a sight I saw when I looked out of the living room window this morning.
The above picture is what I saw...a strange cloud bank of fog, appearing as if it were a mountain, arising in front of Sugar Loaf Mountain.

Sky Watch Friday

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I haven't posted for a few weeks ..mainly because I have been very busy and also forgot about posting until it was too late.

Today's post will start with a nice Spring Sunset we had the other day and progress to the following Morning Spring Sunrise.

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Spring Sunset

Spring Sunrise in the East

Spring Sunrise in the North

Spring Sunrise in the South

Spring Sunrise in the North East

Spring Sunrise in the West..yes the Sun also rises in the West...lol

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What a fantastic day it was the other day for viewing surrealistic clouds at the beginning of Sunrise ..even through out the day..the best cloud watching day I ever saw.

Click on any photograph to enlarge for a better view....it was as if an Artist took a giant brush and painted the skies this day....Thank you Creator for creating such an awesome Sunrise and cloud filled day.

Sunrise in the East

Sunrise over in the South West

Sunrise in the West

Sunrise over to the North West

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This week I am going to give you just a bit of a different view of some of our spectacular Sunrises we have been having...I have gone to a few different places in the area to get a different view of the Sunrise.

Sunrise East from down near the orchard

Sunrise over our garden

Sunrise North..from a view in the hay field

Sunrise South East over Gilliam Mountain

Sunrise over Sugar Loaf Mountain

Sunrise West..shooting over the apple orchard

Sunrise South West

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While most of the rest of the West and North East part of the nation was having record snow storms we here in the mountains of Western NC had mostly rain.

After a day of rain and a night of rain, I went out early the other morning and decided to get a couple of photo's of the Foggy Sunrise before the clouds again moved in to erase the wonderful colors in the sky above the rising fog on the ground level.

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Start of Sunrise in the South

About 5 minutes later in the South

I turned the camera towards the South West

The Hawks tree in the fog in the South West

Five minutes later...the clouds moved in once again erasing the Sunrise colors and replacing them with dark Blue/Grey rain clouds.