This morning I walked outside at about 6:30am and spotted a hawk making its morning rounds. It had spotted a birds nest as I walked out and was about to see if there were any eggs inside. I think I threw him for a loop, so he flew back up into the trees. After a while, he eventually made another run at the birds nest, only to find no eggs.
I am becoming quite the ornithologist. I want to train the hawk to land on my shoulder and then to do my bidding, like pecking peoples eyes out if they cross me, or taking down the geese that poop all over the yard. Hawks, by the way, take monster dumps. I would not want to be standing below one when nature calls.
I used a little panasonic HD camera to film the hawk. Since he was far away, I had to zoom in a lot which leads to super shaky footage. It didn’t help that it was like 40 degrees out and I was in my pajamas, trying to hold the camera for 45 minutes with frozen hands.
I used Red Giant Magic Bullet Steady, a Final Cut Pro plug-in, to get rid of some of the shaky camera syndrome. I also used Magic Bullet Looks to tweak the coloring a bit. Since the first footage I shot was just as the day was going from dark to light I had to brighten the image up a bit so you can make out what is going on in the video.
