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Fighting Moorhen's

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Posted by Alan Bryant on March 3, 2007 at 6:32 PM
These two were chasing eachother all day, today.This was when it went to land.The rest of the day they chased eachother on water.

20D
500f4 + 1.4TC
ISO 100
1/640 @ f5.6
Exposure comp +1/3

C & C welcome

Thank you for your view.
Posted by Rob Ashton on March 3, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Very nice one Alan. Well captured moment. You must have a lot of patience and an unerstanding family to spend hours watching Moorhens :wink:

Rob :toast:
Posted by Graeme Lee on March 3, 2007 at 7:33 PM
Excellent Alan. really well captured :toast: :toast:

Graeme
Posted by John MacTavish on March 3, 2007 at 7:44 PM
Love everything about this. :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Richard Tynan on March 3, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Wow! that's a real fight.

Kung fu moorhen. :biggrin:

Well caught :toast: :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on March 4, 2007 at 5:23 AM
Fantastic action shot Alan,well worth the wait

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

Barrie
Posted by Jim Greenfield on March 4, 2007 at 5:27 AM
Stunning action shot - vey well captured.
Posted by David Taylor on March 4, 2007 at 5:55 AM
Wonderful behavioural shot with plenty of action thrown in.

:toast: :toast:
Posted by Clive_S on March 4, 2007 at 7:48 AM
Superb action perfectly captured. Well done.
Posted by Vincent Jones on March 4, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Great action shot Alan :toast:

Looks like they have just won the lottery :jump:

Vince :toast:
Posted by Paul Thomas on March 4, 2007 at 9:11 AM
That's an absolute cracker.

:toast:

Paul
Posted by Alan Bryant on March 4, 2007 at 10:15 AM
Thank you for all your kind comments :toast:

It was fun watching these chaps :cool:
Posted by John Chapman on March 4, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Superb action shot Alan was you in Manual Focus?
John
Aberdeen :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Alan Bryant on March 4, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Hi John.

I was in auto focus(AI-servo) on Aperture priority

Thanks for the kind comment :toast:
Posted by Mark Fellowes on March 4, 2007 at 12:39 PM
I really like this shot - good stuff. :toast:

Mark
Posted by John Lee on March 4, 2007 at 6:22 PM
What a superb image, I just love the action and the way you have frozen the birds at such telling moment. Love everything about this image. :toast: :toast:

John Lee
Posted by Mark sellings on March 5, 2007 at 11:01 AM
moorhen matrix!

superb capture :toast:

Mark
Posted by Tom_W on March 5, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Lovely behavoural shot.

T
Posted by David Kjaer on March 5, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Hi Alan

Wonderful image!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Justin on March 5, 2007 at 6:18 PM
A shot to be proud of :toast: