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.

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.

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.

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

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

Posted by Craig Jones on February 19, 2010 at 1:49 PM

Lovely composition and pose captured

,great colours and detail in the bird,really nice

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

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.

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

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

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