Peregrine strike

Peregrine strike, a mature peregrine of experience waiting at 2000 ft slices through a flock of wigeon, oblivious to her presence she is the ultimate unseen assassin over the estuary and tidal rivers of the world. A dramatic moment captured in paint and reproduced in this stunning canvas print framed and ready to go. Contact …

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Good Shooting

The slow mo really helps see what happened. This gives some idea of the difficulty of it. Steve had a comment on that in a story he had on grouse shooting somewhere. Something like trying to hit a softball barely visible while falling on your face. There is lots of thick cover like that here …

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Fall Musky explained?

We managed to catch a few Kawartha fish last weekend, the clear musky was 42″, and the tiger, which is the highlight, was caught by my brother, his first musky. I have been trying to get him a musky for over 5 years, well it finally happened!! And a tiger to boot! (He’s camera shy) …

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Big Sugar

They measured the DBH at 8.7 feet  and the height at 236 feet – neither of which were record-breaking figures – but as Taylor used his relascope to take more measurements and calculate the tree’s total volume of wood, his appreciation for the enormous mass of the tree grew and grew. The trunk had very …

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You have to laugh.

    One of the most expensive and sought after Coffees in the world is called “Kopi luwak” or Civet Coffee. It’s made from Coffee Cherries literally poop out by an Asian Civet. The digestion process causes the beans to ferment making them an extraordinary quality. Stephen Hazlife Fultz I suspect the lead pic is …

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Pissed Peregrine

Had an incredible display of acrobatics yesterday when a couple young Peregrine Falcons had a disagreement. Initially the darker bird was cruising around, doing some practice dives on the peeps. Then the lighter bird came out of nowhere and took a swipe at the first bird (which I didn’t catch, it happened real fast!). Well, …

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Local Broad-wings kettle up as well.

We saw what we think was a huge kettle of Broad-Winged Hawks this afternoon. We estimated well over 200. Pics are heavily cropped and blurry. Yarmouth – Sept 21 Angela LeBlanc I doubt I have seen this. I am not sure I have ever seen a broad-wing here either.

Sandhill cranes “kettle up”

Thousands of Sandhill cranes “kettle up” as they prepare to head south from Interior Alaska. Video: Mike Taras A much better video from Alaska Department of Fish and Game on FB. Sept 17 A screenshot from it. Not a fan of winter coming but scenes like this are some help.

Westley Richards .300 H&H

Beautiful Westley Richards .300 H&H. Westley Richards and Rigby both make new rifles on Mauser actions. Now Rigby is partnered with Mauser again, they can use new genuine Mauser actions to build new rifles. They are also made by other firms, like Mayfair Engineering in the UK. Vintage Guns Definitely, high end but nice. Would …

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