One of the local rehabs had a show at the library today. There was a pigeon, screech owl, peregrine, and a red tail hawk.
Pidge was the first bird out to teach the kids to be quiet and sit still around the raptors.
Harry was up next. He was the best behaved bird along with the pigeon. Harry cave to the rehab after being hit by a cat, and then stuck in the grill for 15b hours before being noticed!
Since owl eyes are so large, they are prone to injury. Harry only has one peeper now, but he’s still living his best life.
Quinn was on after the owl. I learned peregrines don’t catch their prey in their talons during dives. They use themb during chases or perch hunting, but for their famous 200 mph (320 kmh) they make fists out of their feet and give a huge “falcon punch” to knock birds from the sky. They then come out iyf their dive and land next to their prize.
The speaker said he had seen a peregrine down an eagle with a solid knock to the head in a territorial dispute!
Windsor the Red Tail Hawk closed out the show. She is one of the rehab’s oldest education animals, at least 12 years of age. They first get there red tail at 2 years of age, and she already had it when they got her 10 years ago.
She is blind in one eye, and since they don’t have the superior hearing of an owl to supplement they’re vision, they lose their ability to hunt without depth perception.
Hope you enjoy the pictures. I know they’re not as fancy as the regular pro pictures. It’s more to encourage you to look out for events local to you.
Neat pictures but there’s some weird filtering going on that make them look like an oil painting or something.
Yeah… I think there is too much correction going on with pushing the phone’s zoom to the limit and then cropping it down. The Pixel tries to work its magic, but it makes some compromises. Probably a fair bit of user error involved too 😅
Just FYI, zooming past the “optical zoom” point is literally just cropping the photo. You’re generally better off taking the photo at the max optical zoom, and cropping it yourself after, also gives you the opportunity to adjust the crop in case you decide you wanted more left in the photo.
All of the new phones use neural-net based compression algorithms because they’re fast and they generate dinky little files. The problem is that they compromise too much on anything it wasn’t trained for and you get that weird oil painting effect.
I was going to ask if you were zoomed way in. My Galaxy S22 has a great zoom, but sometimes the “fixes” it does to make the zoomed pictures look nice are very noticeable.
Overall they look great though, even at 30x
Here’s some pics from the group’s Facebook.
I love them all and they are all perfect despite their shortcomings.
That’s what I like to hear!
Thanks for posting these! Genuinely cool to see
Glad you liked them!
It was a fun program, mainly aimed at the little kids, but I did still learn some things, plus it was free.
Next weekend I’m going to a banding event. I’ll see if I can get anything interesting to report on that too.
