BANNER PHOTO!!,BUT WHAT CATAGORY

[Hardy]

WELL THIS AT LEAST SHOULD GET A HONORABLE MENTION WHILE DRIVING BACK HOME AND THINKING ABOUT WHERE
MY NEXT DIG WILL TAKE PLACE, I NOTICED A MOOSE DOWN IN THE DITCH WITH A FEW VOLTURES PECKING AT IT AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMMOROW, SCANNING FOR ON COMMING TRAFFIC AND NOT THINKING ANY MORE ABOUT THE ROAD SIDE DINNER, UP FLEW A MEMBER OF THE FLYING GARBORATER FAMILY AND MANAGED TO HITCH A RIDE ON MY MIRROR.

WELL LET ME TELL YOU, I HAVE NEVER HAD A BALD HEADED RED NECK FLYING GARBORATER HITCH A RIDE LIKE THAT BEFORE, AND IT TOTALY CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE! THINKING THE DARN THING HAD EXPIRED AND WOULD EVENTUALY FALL OFF AND NO WHERE TO PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, I KEPT DRIVING . NOW THIS IS CANADA WHERE
WILDLIFE IS ABUNDANT AND NO SHOULDERS ON THE HIGHWAYS UP NORTH TO PULL OFF ON, WHILE LOOKING FOR A SPOT
I GLANCED OVER AT MY MIRROR HITCH HIKER AND NOTICED THAT HE WAS LOOKING BACK AT ME AS IF TO SAY "I'L GET OFF NOW BUD". I FOUND A SPOT WHERE THE PLOWS DO THERE TURN AROUNDS AND PULLED OVER. NOW THIS BIRD WAS ALIVE AND HUNG UP AND WANTED OFF!! I GOT MY PIN PULLER OUT AND MY CAMERA, WHO WOULD BELIEVE THIS AND I HAD TO GET A SHOT. AFTER A FEW PIC'S, AND WITH THE AID OF MY PIN PULLER, THE BEAST WAS FREE AND TO MY UTTER AMASEMENT, FLEW OFF

 

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[Silver Fox]

Well, Hardy, your experience takes the cake! I enjoyed your narrative and the photos were to die for, oops, to fly off for! Thanks for sharing and that looks like a nice rig you're driving. Do you carry a detector with you?

Silver Fox

 

[Hardy]

YES BUD, I HAVE 2 DETECTORS IN THE TRUCK, NEVER KNOW WHEN I GET TO A GOOD SPOT

 

[Urban Prospector]

That 3rd picture is outstanding, the look in that birds eye says it all.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Wow!

 

[Mona Lisa]

Ooops! Straight out of a cartoon or something. That's amazing he survived.

Speaking of cartoons..............

Be safe on the road, Hardly!

 

[radarwill]

What a rip-off. The truck says "Bison" not Buzzard.

 

[relichunters]

Haha thats a priceless picture

 

[watercolor]

Hardy, that image is incredible!

A "decisive moment" like that is what every photographer hopes to capture.

Neat!

 

[kindafoundabuckle]

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Great pics. Glad the bird did not damage you fine looking rig.

Pic is worth a thousand words.

Ray S

 

[Evolx10]

NICE! job

 

[cameraman]

Let me tell ya what im a wildlife photographer and ive never caught a picture like that...and probably never will, good job!

 

[bootybay]

oh my aren't they creepy looking birds...thank heavens YOU didnt have the window opened, YOU may of be brunch for it... oh yuck.... LOL is was a great story thou.. wipes sweat off face n says, oh thank you that I am not the only one that has weird stuff happen. I AM NOT ALONE...PHEW

 

[aa battery]

Hey Hardy does your mirror say - Objects are closer than they appear ?

 

[jraven]

Now that's a big bird.... The biggest bird I ever hit was a little black bird... Darn thing hit my windshield and flew about 25 feet in the air... I saw it land in my rear view mirror. He didn't fly away.....

Glad to hear the one you hit flew away... Or the one that hit you! I guess!! Nice storywith a happy ending....

 

[Hardy]

GOOD ONE "A.A" HAD ME LAUGHING . AND NO IT DOES NOT SAY THAT ON THE MIRROR, BUT IT SHOULD

 

[hollowpointred]

well that dont happen everyday! i guess it wasnt that buzzards day to go!

 

[Hardy]

i am going to try to find a scanner and then post a few more old pics of a time when i caught buzzard in my back yard, it was injured

and was given to the natural resources boys, the pics where on a 35 mm camera back then. I was a heck lot younger.

 

[JOe L]

Fantastic pic, all I can say is Holy Moly....