Cooper's Hawk Pair

Gallery: AvianPosted March 27, 201780 views6 comments

Accipiter cooperii
Pima County, Arizona. Spring, late afternoon light.

Fujifilm XPro2 handheld
XF 100-400mm f4.5 @ 400mm
ISO 400
1/1000 f/5.6
Cropping and background cleanup in CaptureOne

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on March 27, 2017 at 5:40 PM

Nice capture. There's a bit of a sharpening halo along the back bird's wing. You didn't describe your post processing, so I'm unsure if it is an in-camera sharpening artifact or a post-processing issue.

You should report the band numbers to whoever is dong the banding in the Tucson area.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 27, 2017 at 6:43 PM

Nice getting both male and female together like this.

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Comment posted by John Willemsen on March 27, 2017 at 6:48 PM

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Comment posted by John Willemsen on March 27, 2017 at 6:50 PM

Thank you, Jim. I'm trying to figure out exactly where the halo came from. Appears to be from the TIFF to JPG reduction/conversion in Photoshop.

I didn't know you could/should report the band numbers. I will do so today.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 28, 2017 at 5:41 PM

A lovely composition, John, and the detail in both hawks is excellent. Very well done. You can report the band numbers to the national banding organization at USFWS I believe. They send a report to the people doing the banding. My wife has done it for some I've taken images of. I was going to call her and get the url, but my phone suddenly has no service.

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Comment posted by Barbara Graham on March 28, 2017 at 11:39 PM

Beautiful colors and detail.

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