Fly like an eagle, Freedom taste good!!!

After considerable effort and consultation with experts at Laurens Wildlife I am now able to show you the most excellent pictures AJ and Tom took and emailed me. I am glad AJ got these pictures because I was in the flight pen walking around in an encouraging way to stimulate Buckshot to go out the door. The boy was good, he got it quick and was already in flight across the road when I got out.

Notice the power of going from standing still in the previous picture to the leap in this picture and the power flight in the next. This all occurred in a matter seconds!!

This was my last view. AJ saw him as he turned to his right, kicked out of the tree, and with about two good flaps of his wings he was above the trees and headed east. He was a speck over Lamar co. when I last saw him.

This sequence of pictures are all copyrighted but they also illustrate the unpredictable response of a raptor. In the second picture he is looking straight at a huge tree with lot's of big limbs and a good field of view, at least I thought so. In a split second he turned left and went into pine trees. He 's free now and making his own decisions.......