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Male Kestrel

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18 replies
Posted by Karen Summers on February 19, 2010 at 9:56 AM
On the way home from a day out I spotted this Male Kestrel on the tip of a branch,was lucky to be able to pull in and manage a few shots before he flew off.

Canon 50D,Canon 500f4L,ISO 400,f5.6,1/1000

Posted by John Robinson on February 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Great. Love the bendy twig!
JR
Posted by Paul Rosser on February 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM
A lovely image Karen.
Regards,
Paul. :wavey:
Posted by Mark Wilson on February 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM
A nice, simple image that works well.
Posted by Cliff Young on February 19, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Nice shot, Karen. Love the eye contact. :smile:
Posted by Paul King on February 19, 2010 at 11:13 AM
A little flat for me, but a nice capture Karen
Posted by John Chapman on February 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Hi Karen, well caught and the male has beautiful colours. :toast:
Posted by Tim Taylor on February 19, 2010 at 1:18 PM
Brill, you lucky thing! They always fly off when I see one by chance. Great detail and catchlight. Typical UK sky!

Tim :toast: :toast:
Posted by Maggie Campbell on February 19, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Nice composition Karen. Plain BG sets it off nicely.

I passed a huge Buzzard sitting on a post on my way home from work tonight. Did I have a camera in the car? Did I heck :frown:
Posted by Craig Jones on February 19, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Lovely composition and pose captured :wink: ,great colours and detail in the bird,really nice :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Bronia Klima on February 19, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Very nice Karen, beautiful clouring and detail
Bronia
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on February 19, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Lovely and well composed image.
Posted by John Stuart-Clarke on February 19, 2010 at 2:48 PM
Very nice Karen, well caught :toast:
Posted by Roy Bailey on February 19, 2010 at 3:39 PM
Very very nice, simple but very effective, as kestrels go its a good looking guy .Bit sad that I should know this but there you go. :smile:
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on February 19, 2010 at 4:15 PM
I was expecting to see that you'd used a converter on this - well done for getting within shooting distance. Nice bird, nice shot.

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Liam Pauling on February 20, 2010 at 4:22 AM
Great shot Karen, I wish I could get close to Kestrels :biggrin:

:toast:
liam
Posted by Ron McCombe on February 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Great image Karen

Lovely colours

Ron
Posted by David Kjaer on February 20, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Never easy to get near - super image!

David :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on February 22, 2010 at 5:13 AM
Lucky you to get an adult male, I only seems to manage immatures most of the time. Well done for being ready when the opportunity presented itself. A fine capture.

David