FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] FW: hunt of a stilt by a peregrine

[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

A friend in Idaho just mailed me this link.  Great photos. 
Interesting method of transport of prey, too...

Charlie


> A little gruesome, but amazing event
> 
> Excellent photos in this article. Peregrine Falcon hunting a Black
> Necked Stilt, especially the third picture.
> 
> http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0205/bs0205-1.html


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Charlie Muise, Naturalist in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illuminated mind 
the whole world sparkles with light."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson


                
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