tom_broadbent2 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hello, Does anyone out there have any idea who shot these? Or know a source who does. http://www.hemmy.net/2007/12/07/bird-survives-vicious-hawk-attack/ They have been uploaded to lots of blogging sites. They are well shot and I'm thinking it must be ripped from a photographer's website. Your help is much appreciated. Many thanks Tom Tom Broadbent Picture Editor Bizarre Magazine tom_broadbent@dennis.co.uk +44 (0)20 7907 6485 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyphillips Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I don't know but I wish I wouldn't have looked.....Warning to others: if you have a weak stomach or love animals (birds) don't look. It's just bizzare. That's what bothered me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hey, nature is a rough place. I've encountered many still-alive birds in various states of disrepair. Hawks, domestic cats, foxes, coyotes - they've all left some rough-looking birds where I've found them and in most cases, finished them off - though another animal <i>will</i> do so soon, whether you do or not. <br><br> As for it being a strange sight... well, birds have skinny necks, and that hawk stripped the feathers off of the gull, and bloodied it some. The photos are certainly an unusual thing to capture, but if you have any sense of bird anatomy, it's just... well, bird anatomy. Nature is rough. Predators have no sense that their prey should meet a tidy or bloodless end to make it easier on us staring-at-our-own-mortality observers. And there are plenty of scavengers that will happily clean up after these episodes, and they have babies to feed! Folks: this stuff is happening every second whether a good lens is pointed at it or not. These images can certainly provoke some empathy, but you've got to keep it in perspective, especially if you're having a chicken salad sandwich for lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_watson Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Nice shot of what appears to be a peregrine falcon just being itself.Usually the hi-speed aerial impact kills/stuns the victim.Peregrines usually immobilize live prey birds by breaking their necks. Looks like this one was rushed by the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phule Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Kelly, I found your rose-colored glasses on the floor. You might want them back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenPapai Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I could have shot a similar photo like this in my backyard only last Friday -- a raptor of some sort had a bird in its claws and couldn't get over my fence (with the captured bird) and he started tearing the bird apart. I didn't photograph it, but could've easily shot it super close-up with my 200mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travisrodd Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 ken.. that could've made the cover of National Geographic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_stobbs3 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 While waiting at a ferry dock in Seattle I saw a seagull with a pigeon in its beak on a nearby roof. When other gulls harrassed it trying to steal its lunch, the gull dropped the pigeon which quickly flew away. I'm sure Aesop could have made a moral for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmeade Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Nature red in tooth and claw. Impressive series of photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackojones Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Those photos look photoshopped to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_elder1 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 What a weigh to lose weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devon_watson Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I think the bird walking away with a mutant-deformed-popsicle-stick-neck is pretty much the last outcome I envisioned as that series progressed. Silly me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garry edwards Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Matt has a good point, animals are neither cruel nor kind, they just earn their living. We have a bit of land with plenty of both prey and predatory animals earning their living. Rabbits eat our food, foxes eat rabbits. They also eat our (true) free range hens, especially if they wander too far. The foxes also eat rats, so we tolerate them unless they get lazy and go too near the hen hotel, in which case I interfere with nature - 250 pellets travel faster than foxes :-) People are less efficient and less humane than other animals, and it's my guess that if most people knew about the short, miserable lives and nasty deaths of most chickens they wouldn't eat chicken sandwiches I have a lot of respect for people who can get good photos of animals being animals - it's very unusual to even see a predator in action, let alone be in the right place, in the open, to photograph it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeljlawson Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Taken by Christine Raaschou-Nielsen from Denmark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sullen Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 incredible alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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