Natural History photo

[dankearl]

I have some better photos of the Hawks eating the prey, that I will probably post, but here is
an unusual behavior photo.
Three hawks at the kill, the center one was eating it initially, the one on the right near the kill
moved in and ate it with the other one, and the third interloper flew in and disrupted them.
The hawk by the kill, quit eating and tried to look innocent I think.
This is not a great photo, I am posting it for general interest, I had to take off the TC and shoot with
just the 300 to fit them in the photo. I had 10 shots and this is the best one I could get for all three head angles.
Raptors don't really cooperate that well.......

1/320, f9, iso 2000, 300 f2.8, D800, HH

DSC_3703bp.jpg

[John Cooper]

A nice follow up to the previous post Dan, and yes an interesting story behind the behaviour here. I wonder if they are all family members?

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Good story Dan, must have been a good sighting to witness. I am sure you got a few flight shot from this sighting, hope to see them.

[arash_hazeghi]

very cool, you got 2 out of 3 HAs right! it is tough to have them all look at the camera at the same time

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dan, a great follow up from your previous post, and not bad getting two out three HA's. I do like the left over feathers from the kill lying all over the place.

[Satish Ranadive]

Another interesting behavior shot.Nice environment and composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Very nice telling shot. Interesting behavior as well. Thanks for sharing.

[Karl Egressy]

Great behavior story and picture, Dan. They might have been siblings, that's why they tolerated each other somewhat better than usual.
The other reason could have been that the food source is good.

[PhilCook]

Getting 3 in one frame is a great achievement in itself I think, interesting little behavior story Dan