Young H awk

Gallery: AvianPosted November 7, 2009117 views3 comments

This was taken in the fall and I think it is a young Swainsens Hawk. They are very commen in this area and they do not all have the same feather patterns. Any help on id would be helpfull.

Thanks for looking and for any comments.

50D
SS 1/500
F 8
ISO 1600
FL 400

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Sally King on November 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM

Love the patterns on the feathers. Could maybe lighten the eye just a tad. If this is a crop a little less room on the left and a little more on the right would be nice. Where approx was this image taken?

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on November 7, 2009 at 10:01 PM

Nice pose, Jack. I'm surprised you don't have more noise showing with a 50D at iso 1600.

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Comment posted by JACK NEAL on November 8, 2009 at 1:28 AM

Thanks for the comments Sally and Dennis. The hawk is a full frame shot[no crop] so there is no room to work with. I should have backed off on the lens, but I wanted a really close up. The hawk gave me two pictures and then flew.
We were at Henrys Lake in Idaho and this was taken on 9-5-2009. A lot of the hawks had left the area at this late date.

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