Nankeen Kestral,with lunch on the wing

hotspur (Chris) · #1 21-10-2009, 04:53 PM

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 (Troy) · #2 21-10-2009, 06:13 PM

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

Background seems a little noisy - were these cropped?

Lumen Miner (Mitchell) · #3 21-10-2009, 06:48 PM

Great details!!

hotspur (Chris) · #4 21-10-2009, 06:49 PM

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 (Dave Pastern) · #5 21-10-2009, 08:13 PM

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 (Chris) · #6 21-10-2009, 08:19 PM

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 (Jeff) · #7 21-10-2009, 09:07 PM

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 (Dave Pastern) · #8 21-10-2009, 09:22 PM

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/B.../CRW_0080.html

Dave

StephenM (Stephen) · #9 21-10-2009, 11:13 PM

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

Cheers,
Stephen

Octane (Humayun) · #10 22-10-2009, 12:02 AM

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 (Jeanette) · #11 22-10-2009, 12:13 AM

Great stuff Chris.

ving (David) · #12 24-10-2009, 10:57 PM

thats a great find chris

I have zero luck with birds of prey