Angels Landing Zion National Park : Photos, Diagrams & Topos : SummitPost

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Marcsoltan - Feb 24, 2009 9:42 am - Voted 10/10

Glad to see

these guys are protected.
Great capture, and perfect framing,
Happy climbing,
Marc

ArankaP - Feb 24, 2009 1:53 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Glad to see

Me too. This was my first time to see them in the nature. Thx U for your comment.

yatsek - Feb 25, 2009 6:16 am - Voted 10/10

Rare

How did you manage to shoot it? At a kind of feeding place or was the bird just hanging around by the trail?

ArankaP - Feb 25, 2009 2:02 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Rare

Shot was a 4x zoom and he was hanging around as well for a while.

Dow Williams - Feb 25, 2009 10:06 am - Voted 10/10

great

close up....they tag them underneath their wings as well...cheers

cp0915 - Feb 25, 2009 10:22 am - Voted 10/10

Nice capture

What a treat to see one of those birds in the wild.

ArankaP - Feb 25, 2009 2:07 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Nice capture

Agree ....I hope they will stay here for long, long time. Thank you for your comment.

lcarreau - Feb 25, 2009 11:11 am - Voted 10/10

This looks like

condor number -6. Or, if you turn your head
upside down, you get 9-.

Either way, it looks like this bird is having
fun watching for "road pizza," and keeping the
high desert clean!!

ArankaP - Feb 25, 2009 2:28 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: This looks like

Larry, this is very good question I found some info on Condor marked AC-9 (In 2002, Adult condor #9 (AC-9), along with three year-old juveniles, was released into the Sespe Condor Sanctuary near the town of Fillmore, California. AC-9 was the last free-flying California condor captured for the conservation breeding program. As of December 2008 there are 327 individuals living, including over half of them in the wild...interesting. There was lots of money spend by US to keep these alive.