birds of prey, unnatural, but still pure beauty

Well this will be another post with some stuff I found in my archive. No idea why I haven’t posted these pictures earlier, but here goes.
I took them while watching a birding show. I always love flying birds (those spread wings are just breathtaking, every single time), and with such a show and the ability to stand almost everywhere I wanted, it was a nice opportunity to take some flying shots.
However with editing it seemed like the used lens (canon 70-300 IS USM) was still too slow on focussing, bad luck I guess Anyways, here are some pics from the set that did work out, hope you enjoy.

don’t remember the name of this one, but as I recall it was a hybrid “model”.

a bit moved still and the focus / background aren’t too good, but I do think my timing was pretty darn good here