Wordless Wednesday: Tiny Hunter

Wordless Wednesday: Tiny Hunter

Travel Theme: Smooth

Travel Theme: Smooth (Galleries Below)

This smooth operator is Bailey, a hybrid Gyr-Saker Falcon. What a beauty! Flying at similar speeds to the peregrine these falcons have eyesight that allows them to see their prey from distances of over a mile. Falcons are the skies most spectacular hunters! He’s so fast that photographing him was a real challenge, but I absolutely loved it 🙂

Flight sequence:

Ambivalence

I like to call this infamous, neighbourhood cat, Lion. He has a quite an impressive ruff or mane of fur!

We don’t know exactly where he lives but he appears from over one of the fences most days, in order to hunt the birds in our garden.

I’m sure that he would argue that because we put out rather a lot of bird feeders and baths, we are practically inviting him over for an all you can eat buffet!

Today he showed his supposed ambivalence toward me with this spectacular yawn! I moved one step closer and he quickly retreated to higher ground though.

I just want to make friends!