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Red-shouldered Hawk
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Red-shouldered Hawk

by Charles Gangas

Gallery: AvianPosted January 10, 2011144 views7 comments
Captured at Six-Mile Cypress Slough, Ft.Myers, FL. Thanks to Angela McCain and Buck Ward for their ID help...and thanks for looking.

D300
300 mm f/2.8
TC-14E II
1/1600 sec @ f/4.5
ISO 200

Comments

7 comments
Comment posted by richard remington on January 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM
Chuck,

Great hawk picture. I just ran into one of these today but he was behind heavy branches. You have a great look here.

Rick
Registered on March 12, 2010, 105 Posts, 368 Comments
Comment posted by Angela McCain on January 10, 2011 at 11:08 PM
Nice Charles. Glad you decided to post this. He has a great head turn. Nice light in the eye. Color of the bird looks good. I know you are happy to have gotten this.
Registered on April 19, 2009, 367 Posts, 3589 Comments
Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 11, 2011 at 9:48 AM
Nice view of the hawk, Chuck. There seems to be a lot of noise in the bird in the larger image, which I find strange with your techs. Did you do a lot of selective sharpening? :toast:
Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments
Comment posted by Richard Teller on January 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Nice image. I like the Florida Red Shoulders. The last time I was in the Everglades they seemed to pose and almost call me over to take pictures. We lived near Louisville, KY for six years and saw many of these hawks, but I could never get close enough to get a good image.
Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments
Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on January 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Nice capture Chuck. I also see a lot of noise in the image. Wondering if it might have been underexposed a bit and trying to pull details out of the shadows?
Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments
Comment posted by Ron Dudley on January 11, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Chuck, I like the head turn you got from this handsome hawk. There's light in the eye and the colors look right to me for the species. For me the branches provide habitat without being distracting. I also enjoy the lichens on the perch. I'm a bit surprised by the noise at ISO 200 though.
Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments
Comment posted by Albert Darmo on January 12, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Hi Charles :wavey: love the head turn of this beautiful hawk.capture :smile: Too bad about the noise :rolleyes:
Albert Darmo. Canada
Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments