As we speak’s Picture from Ted Grussing Pictures: Which is Which?

… right now was a type of uncommon days that come alongside now and again … issues didn’t go alongside fairly as anticipated, however as at all times, points had been resolved once more, it was a terrific day! This dropped at thoughts a little bit confusion that may happen when getting a take a look at raptors in flight and questioning which of a number of totally different species we’re taking a look at. One supply of confusion could be in placing an ID on black raptors. Above we now have a photograph of a Zone Tail hawk that I shot as he was flying down the golf green in the direction of our dwelling … beneath is a photograph of a Black Hawk which I shot down at Effervescent Ponds Fishery in Web page Springs.

The Zone Tail has a number of white bands on his tail and the ends of his wings seem to look extra like these of a turkey vulture than a hawk … good motive for this as a result of the Zone Tails will often fly with the vultures. Over the millennia creatures on the earth beneath have realized that the vultures don’t do contemporary kills, however solely eat that which one thing else has killed and this equals a way of security after they see vultures overhead. Zone Tail hawks have advanced too and from the bottom seem very very like a vulture … the essential distinction is that they do kill stay meals just like the lizard that’s firmly gripped in his talons … whoops, guessed incorrect!

Black Hawks solely have a single broad white band on the tail and are a little bit larger than Zone Tails. Take a look at Audubon for Black Hawks and for Zone Tail Hawks.

Have a fantastic day, preserve respiratory and go searching … we share the planet with some fairly wonderful creatures!

Smiles,

Ted

To you my boy, the one world I do know.
Bear in mind this: whichever course you select,
You’ll typically flip about and stroll awhile
The opposite manner, for none of human form
Is all of fine or all of evil made.
Let this and trustworthy poverty not flip
Your coronary heart in bitterness and wild despair
To hardened ideas of Him who made all issues.

excerpt from Breaking Residence Ties by Max Ehrmann

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Along with gross sales of pictures already taken Ted does particular shoots for patrons on request and in addition does air-to-air images for many who need pictures of their airplanes in flight. All particular photographic classes are billed on an hourly foundation.

Ted additionally does one-on-one workshops for these thinking about studying the strategies he makes use of.  By particular association Ted will do one-on-one aerial images workshops which is able to embody precise photograph classes within the air.

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