Some things are just meant to be photographed and at times
all you have to do is be prepared. I first came upon this caracara bird on a beautiful
sunny Saturday morning. It was standing in the middle of my lane but as I got
close enough to him to determine what type of bird he was he flew off.
I asked my traveling companion to turn the car around in
hopes that maybe he landed up high in the tree. We turned around and headed
back and waited a few minutes but he didn’t return so we continued on our
journey.
We had been gone for several hours before heading back down
this same two lane country road and to my amazement in the same location I
spotted what I first thought to be an eagle flying pretty low in the sky. I
keep my camera in the front seat with me and if I am traveling alone it is my
passenger seat companion. I became so excited and asked my companion to pull
over but the only place she could pull over was in someone’s driveway. I was
like “ we are not going to be here that long.” This made my companion pretty nervous but she pulled into
the driveway anyway, but not without letting me know several times we were
parked in someone’s driveway.
I jumped out of the car with camera in hand and spotted the
bird high up in a pine tree. It was at this point I noticed it was not an eagle
but a caracara bird. I fired off several shots hand holding the camera but
wanting to get sharper images I took a chance on grabbing my tripod from its
bag Laying on the back seat, then in a hurried frenzy I opened up all the legs and placed my camera onto
the tripod and to my amazement the caracara waited. I had done what I
needed to do and that was show up and be prepared and nature would do the rest
as she always does.
To learn more about the Crested Caracara bird click the link:Crested Caracara
To learn more about the Crested Caracara bird click the link:Crested Caracara
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