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Birdarazzi shoots a hawk - June 23, 2012

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rpt:
Well, what can I say, A Hawk came calling yesterday (June 23, 2012) and stayed put on the branch near my house for over one hour and 8 minutes (or 143 snaps) - but who is counting? Well, I did! It was great to have a bird see me and assess that I was not a threat. Not since the times I shot the Black Kites three years back (at another location).

So! Here are the pics. Background. I had issues with the 5D3 and the 100-400 and needed to AFMA - which I have done several times - and this time it seems to have worked. Or so I believe... However, I am told that I am easily pleased and so I would like to have the CR community comment on the pictures. I have done NO post work on these. These are all OOTC JPEGs except that they are cropped and re-sized.









Edit: Lined thumbnails 6 to a row...

revup67:
I peeked at a few and with respect to the focus I think they look rather good.  If you are still in doubt on the focus I had read awhile back that the 100-400mm may have trouble with a UV on the front.  I removed mine on the 400mm (non zoom) and did notice a difference. Also, to help ID whether this is a Hawk or Merlin or Kestrel you can use whatbird.com  run the wizard to help you locate a positive ID.

rpt:

--- Quote from: revup67 on June 24, 2012, 01:27:32 PM ---I peeked at a few and with respect to the focus I think they look rather good.  If you are still in doubt on the focus I had read awhile back that the 100-400mm may have trouble with a UV on the front.  I removed mine on the 400mm (non zoom) and did notice a difference. Also, to help ID whether this is a Hawk or Merlin or Kestrel you can use whatbird.com  run the wizard to help you locate a positive ID.

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Cool! Thanks. Will do both.

Kernuak:
Focus looks fine to me too. I'm guessing you're in North America, which I'm not familiar with bird-wise. But from the wings, it isn't a falcon, so that rules out kestrel and merlin (even though the N. American kestrel is different). It reminds me of a sparrowhawk (apart from the eye-colour), so I would put it as an Accipiter hawk, rather than a Buteo hawk.

rpt:
revup67, kernuak, I am located in India. I believe this is a Shikara described on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikra. Look at the third photograph on that page.

Thanks for verifying the focus on my pictures.

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