Corvus Corone Corone

Hi everyone, as said yesterday, I haven't been out much of late . So here's one of a Carrion Crow taken at midday, on a bright sunny day last May. It was during my 1/2hr lunch break, and so was just a quick handheld grab shot. I watched the bird from behind a tree for a little while, it could hear Coot chicks calling in the reeds below it. Wiley, intelligent birds, always on the lookout for an opportunity, but it failed this time, cos my presence proved too much to bear . All C&C's welcome, many thanks,
Paul Rosser.

Canon EOS 7D
Sigma 150-500mm
f6.3
1/200 sec
ISO 200
@ 320mm

You were certainly fortunate to catch it Paul as they are one of the most wary birds I know (usually). The fence wire is a bit distracting but some good detail in the bird.

good shot of a difficult species, the fence isn't the ideal perch of course but not much to be done about that

Nice one Paul

the fence dont do it any favours but still a good shot of a very wary bird

Great detail in the bird Paul

Geoff.

At least you got a nice BG too, round here it is all concrete.

Nit re perch already mentioned but good detail in the Crow and lovely BG

Nice capture Paul. Please note that you should not use capital letters for the second bit of a Latin name (I have seen it earlier as well)