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Posted by John Robinson on May 2, 2010 at 4:58 PM

Sparrow hawk. Room window
D200 50-500mm Sigma Large crop off horizontal
500 iso
125th @f8

Posted by Justin on May 2, 2010 at 5:07 PM

A fine subject and a good image. Looks like his gaze is firmly on his next meal.

Posted by Karen Summers on May 2, 2010 at 5:17 PM

well caught John lovely sharp eye

Posted by Mark Davies on May 2, 2010 at 5:24 PM

The things you get from that window of yours... amazing.
Another fine capture . BG a tadge busy .

Posted by Andy Snape on May 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM

Bg is busy but what an eye, super sharp!

Posted by Ian Macdermott on May 2, 2010 at 5:38 PM

Hi John,

lovely sharp portrait

Bloody inconvenient of him to sit in such a cluttered background. A real shame you could not ask him to move to a much more unrealistic perch.

Posted by Austin Thomas on May 2, 2010 at 6:11 PM

Very sharp subject John,

Hopefully the nearby bird life could see it as just as clearly.

Cheers

Austin

Posted by Bob Cox on May 2, 2010 at 6:51 PM

Some window , love the setting, nice shot .

Bob.

Posted by Dale Sutton on May 3, 2010 at 2:00 AM

Cor!
he is a beauty!
Hope you get some more pictures of him John.

Dale

Posted by Kim Connolly on May 3, 2010 at 3:17 AM

Great shot John, super sharp.

Posted by Matt Cole on May 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM

sharp indeed, well taken John and a nice natural setting.

Matt

Posted by keith mitchell on May 3, 2010 at 4:29 AM

Nice bird john is it the same one? get thoses bushes cut.

Mitch.

Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on May 3, 2010 at 5:22 AM

Very nice image, John. Hope to see more.

Posted by Phil Mclean on May 3, 2010 at 6:45 AM

The soft lighting has brought out some good detail in the feathering and good all round quality for a large crop.Well done John.

Phil.

Posted by Ian Mason on May 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM

That is one evil eye!

Posted by John Robinson on May 3, 2010 at 7:22 PM

Thanks all
sorry about lack of comments by me ,but tied up with a few things at present. Will get to it.
Cheers
JohnR

Posted by eric weight on May 4, 2010 at 6:30 AM

I really like that John. Nice to get such a good shot of one with some real environment around it.

eric

Posted by Guy Rogers on May 4, 2010 at 7:49 AM

Hello John.

Lovely Sparrow hawk and some very nice detail.

Its a shame about the Green coming across the body but I have one that comes to my feeding station, and I just cant get a clean shot any where near as good as this so well done

Posted by David Sewell on May 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM

Lovely portrait. It is a shame about all the clutter in the background, but that is just typical habitat for a sparrowhawk.

David