Nankeen Kestral,with lunch on the wing

[hotspur]

Went to a graziers' property this morning to

take raptor pics,the spotted harriers were not

there,so had to be happy with nankeen kestral.

He was quick!,he caught a feild rat,i took these pics

in jpeg/RAW mode so hopefully i can tidy them up

a bit when i get time,hope these are of interest.

look forward to reading your comments.

Chris

[troypiggo]

Nice work! You're giving that lens a workout.

Background seems a little noisy - were these cropped?

[Lumen Miner]

Great details!!

[hotspur]

yes,cropped,i had to crop a fair amount,as

in original he is so tiny.some of the PPP gurus might

be able to give me some pointers to may be make

a better pic out of these,might be worth the effort.

Particularly the one with rat.

cheers C

[dpastern]

Very nice shots Chris - you really are pretty good at the bird photography - I take my hat off to you sir! When I eventually get a car and head out your way I'll expect you to take me on a birding tour and give me tonnes of birding photography tips.

Dave

[hotspur]

Yeah,no problems David,hurry up and get that car;)

The property i went to day,i got brown falcon,BSK,and kestral.

plus a really close up of oriental cockoo,And that was a bad day.

the heat haze gave me hell.My primart target a pair of

spottedd harriers was'nt there,i went with grazier to one of

his other properties,i got a brown falcon with a snake he

caught,he was along way away,but the grazier was very impressed.

i will try and post a pic of him.

C

[Jeffkop]

I can tell ya that the day when I accidentally trip over a leprechaun because I was trying to dodge standing on a new shoot of the money tree in the front garden and I land vertical on one finger in the ground and my feet pointing up at a flying cow .... either Chris (hotspur) or David (ving) will supply the snapshot to the forum .... AND .. it will be a GREAT picture !!!

[dpastern]

Wow Chris, that's amazing. It's been a while since I've seen a bird of prey up close. I have seen a few kestrals in my time, one of which was way back in 1988. It was a youngish one and it was happy to let me and best mate approach it within 1.5m or so from memory. I only had a 50mm lens though and didn't want to spook it, so didn't get too clsoe. I saw a large wedge tailed eagle a few years back, but my camera/lens and me weren't capable of grabbing a decent shot. My best shots are a grey goshawk (female from memory, early summer coat).

http://www.macro-images.com/images/Birds/slides/CRW_0080.html

Dave

[StephenM]

Nicely captured Chris! Looks like you're having fun with that lens.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Octane]

Chris,

I know how challenging bird photography is, and, you're going gangbusters with these.

Well done. That lens is a corker. :)

Regards,
Humayun

[jjjnettie]

Great stuff Chris.

[ving]

thats a great find chris :D
I have zero luck with birds of prey :(