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    Home » Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: The Attack
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    Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: The Attack

    March 25, 2021No Comments
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    By Ted Grussing

    … Coopers Hawks are a medium size hawk, but still on the small size relative to other raptors. Their primary diet consists of birds and small animals and they are incredible flyers and catch a lot of their prey in mid flight; then to the ground in a quiet place, pick the feathers off and enjoy a fine meal of dove or pigeon or? On this particular occasion he was headed down to the cart path and snatched about a foot and a half long king snake and I have photos of him with talons extended coming in for the kill about six inches above the snake … it is intense.

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    We used to have a gentleman in the area that did weddings at Red Rock Crossing and he had a flock of white homing pigeons that he would release at the weddings. He would frequntly exercise the birds, letting them loose to fly about a quarter mile from here … the flock was continually diminished by the Coopers Hawks as he was just setting up a free aerial buffet for them.

    One of these pigeons ended up in our back yard with the Coopers Hawk plucking feathers before he ripped into his meal … they use the hooked end of their beak to tear their food into edible chunks … talons are for killing the prey. Humans have refined the whole system for ourselves so that we no longer have to kill and butcher our own food … down to the supermarket to pick up fresh packaged meat that others have killed, cleaned, processed and put into packages; neat and clean.

    Into the weekend for me and I’ll be back Monday morning. Have a wonderful weekend and spend your days thinking about what you are doing in that day … it is the only one you have.

    Smile and keep breathing.

    Ted

    Sedona Gift Shop

    Love some one—in God’s name love some one—for this is the bread of the inner life, without which a part of you will starve and die; and though you feel you must be stern, even hard, in your life of affairs, make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere in the great world, where you may unbosom and be kind.
    — Max Ehrmann

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    The easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com

    In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.

    Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses.  By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.

    More about Ted Grussing

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    Don’t mess with symbols. Just ask author Dan Brown’s character Robert Landon. The worth of symbols cannot be measured. Symbols make the world-go-round. Symbols carry the weight of a thousand words and meanings. Symbols represent reality boiled down to the bone. Symbols evoke profound emotions and memories—at a very primal level of our being—often without our making rational or conscious connections. They fuel our imagination. Symbols enable us to access aspects of our existence that cannot be accessed in any other way. Symbols are used in all facets of human endeavor. One can only feel sorry for those who cannot comprehend the government’s response to the breech of the capital on January 6, with many, even pundits, claiming it was only a peaceful occupation. Regardless if one sees January 6 as a full-scale riot/insurrection or simply patriotic Americans demonstrating as is their right, the fact is the individuals involved went against a symbol, and this could not be allowed or go unpunished. Read more→
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