Looks a right handsome fella with his well-scrubbed look...wildlife shows usually feature these animals with the heads covered in blood&guts.
Excellent photo, Roz, especially with your dramatic angle.

Rosalyn Sears: I guess these guys are fed on cubes of meat from the supermarket.....so as not to scare the kids. lol! A lot of these birds have been rescued from situations where they have been illegally kept as `pets`, so I can`t imagine they have ever been neck-deep in carrion.

As for the angle - it was literally the only shot I could get, but I felt the camera handled it really well.

Thanks for the encouraging comments. I hope your thumbnails open up soon, I believe they may be one of my favorite subjects. (:o)

I had a science teacher who looked like him.

Rosalyn Sears: lol! Love it! As anniedog says, there is something very human about his expression. (:o)

There's something very human about his expression. If you took away the beak, it could be an elderly lady wearing a feather boa!
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Rosalyn Sears: lol! I know exactly what you mean. (:o)

It's almost scary that you were able to get so close to something with a beak like that. Awesome photograph!!!

Rosalyn Sears: Glad you like it, Mary. It is amazing how much confidence a bit of wire mesh can give you. lol! (:o)

Stunning detail in this. You've got great skills with your bird captures specially from what I've seen in your archive. Not easy subjects by any means.

Rosalyn Sears: Well thank you for those very kind comments. There was a high attrition rate of photographs, and it took me a while to work out how to focus past the wire mesh, but it was such a wonderful outing. (:o)

I'm a bit worried as he has a glint in his eye

Rosalyn Sears: He does look a bit wicked, doesn`t he? (:o)

I love the colors on her/his face. It almost looks it's coming from a stained glass window on the side.

Rosalyn Sears: I have no idea why, but I keep calling him `he`. The wire mesh did cast some interesting shadows. (:o)

Ros, your bird series are well taken. Though I would want to keep my distance from this fellow.

Rosalyn Sears: Thank you for your kind comments, Helen. Much appreciated. (:o)

I love your comment Roz! This is another super picture

Rosalyn Sears: Thanks, Bill. Pleased you enjoyed this one. (:o)

You were able to so close! And that angle is great. Very nice. So much detail. I thought there was something human about his expression too.

Rosalyn Sears: That `human` expression is quite unexpected, isn` it? (:o)

another great shot ROz, beautifully sharp

Rosalyn Sears: Thank you, dai. (:o)

Is this a baby? Again, the eyes are amazing!

Rosalyn Sears: No, I think this is a fully grown adult. (:o)

I think this is my favorite of your captive bird series so far. I'll have to go back in my files and see if I can dig up some photos I took at a wildlife rehabilitation center last summer. There was a hawk with one blind eye, and three barred owls on a single perch...

Rosalyn Sears: I`d love to see your photographs, Dave. I am absolutely hooked on these amazing birds now. (:o)

I posted a shot at my regular blog: http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/03/05/doubletake/

Nowhere near the detail and intimacy of your bird photos, but striking in its own way, I guess. (I had all of five minutes to snap photos there that day.)

What an amazing creature! And you've captured him so intimately...wow!!!! I'm just loving your birds, Roz. Each one I see just gets better and better!