Falcon Attack

Falcon dives down from upper right. f3.2 1/800 sec.
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Falcon is in the midst of the Sandpiper flock. f3.2 1/800 sec.

Flock is being divided and falcon now center above flock. f3.2 1/800 sec.

Flock divided moments later and the unlucky Falcon has left. f3.2 1/1000 sec.

Swarming Dunlin Sandpipers trying to protect themselves in numbers over the Puget Sound, the Peregrine Falcon tried several times to make a kill and failed.

Ross 

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Tulips and Snow Geese

Image: 5D MkII,300 f2.8, EF 1.4x II TC , 1/3200 sec @ f4, iso 100.
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Image: 5D MkII,300 f2.8, 1/2000 @ f 2.8, iso 100
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Image: 5D MkII,300 f2.8, EF 1.4x II TC, 1/2500 sec @ f4, iso 100.
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What do Geese and Tulips have in common ? at this time of year we have the Skagit Valley tulip festival and it coincides with the annual migration of the Snow Geese, they stop off to rest and fatten up on their way to the arctic circle to breed. This makes for great photographic opportunities, if you can't get one your bound to get the other. One other migratory bird of note in the NW are the Sandhill crane common to Eastern Washington during their migration.

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