I caught this caracara bird at his early morning breakfast on the beach at La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico.
I’ve been invited by Cee from ceenphotography.com to participate in a challenge called Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge, and since I’ve been doing everything Cee told me to do for the past few years, of course I’m complying. Aside from being obedient, I also happen to have about 35,000 nature photos I’m eager to share, so this decision was not a hard one to make. (Check out Cee’s third photo of the nature challenge HERE.)
To take part in the challenge I’m supposed to post one photo per day for seven days, of anything from the natural world. And every day I should nominate a new member. Today I would like to nominate Bob Mielke from the pacificnorthwesttraveler blog. He is an excellent wildlife photographer who is especially adept at photographing animals. Check out his blog and hopefully you’ll see his first of seven entries for this challenge.
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I knew Cee would pick you off before I got to you 🙂 But this is a great challenge and I’m very glad you are participating! I have never seen a caracara bird. Is it a kind of hawk? It looks a bit hawkish. Beautiful, too.
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We are just too inbred… ha.
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Yes, we all know each other, so I despaired of getting anyone at all 🙂 Got one, though. I think Cee’s snagged everyone else I know!
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Did you nominate Bob? I did, but can’t remember if I told him I did.
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Okay. Not merely a hawk, but an eagle and probably, the sacred eagle of the native tribes. And threatened throughout most of its range. That’s a great photograph!
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I am really excited you wanted to play along with this challenge. I know I am having fun putting together photos for it.
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Harder than finding photos is finding a photographer you haven’t invited first! Challenge…
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