Oops
A couple days ago I posted about an Aplomado Falcon I photographed from a mile away after the sun set. It didn’t occur to me that it was strange for me to immediately identify the bird as a very rare migrant, especially in those conditions. Well, I never had a shadow of a doubt about it, I knew what I saw, and I communicated this excitedly to the rest of the small group I was with.
So now this morning I’m spamming comments and something tells me to check that picture again. I open it on the blog, and something looks odd about it. It suddenly did not seem in any way like an Aplomado Falcon. They are medium sized, slender, long-tailed raptors. This bird I was looking at in this picture that I’ve had for a couple weeks now was large, hulking almost. I open it on my pc here, and zoom to 500%. It’s a Peregrine. Hahahaha.
I’m truly sorry about my oversight, but hey, at least I get to post this image again. It’s another one of my top picks of 2016.
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Small ting bro…. Its the peacefulness and the moment for me.
Great.
Yeah man, these things happen.
Noted. An understandable one given the distance and our own excitement knowing that the Aplomado was seen in close vicinity. Will update my notes!
Yeah, I think that underlying expectation to see it drove me to say “There’s the Aplomado!”
Instead of “What’s that all the way over there? Let me check.”