My first Bird of prey in flight photo

[loebas]

Managed to take the attached photo. It is so diffucult to find and than to photograph them.
Today I took this photo. Don't know the species of the bird but it is a bird of prey

[Scottes]

I'm terrible at hawk/falcon ID, so I won't even take a guess. But it *is* a very nice shot.

[Stephen Stephen]

Nice capture. You might consider cropping the photo so that you are focussing almost exclusively on the bird with some space to its right for it to fly "into"?

[Leorooster]

Nice capture. You might consider cropping the photo so that you are focussing almost exclusively on the bird with some space to its right for it to fly "into"?

Ditto, but great capture!

[Blackburnian]

Grat Capture.

I'm going to call it at least an accipiter, and probably a coopers hawk.

Conclusion based on wing patterns, long tail and finely streaked chest/belly.

Marc

[loebas]

Grat Capture.

I'm going to call it at least an accipiter, and probably a coopers hawk.

Conclusion based on wing patterns, long tail and finely streaked chest/belly.

Marc

Thank you for the research !

[tupe]

Nice capture, loebas. You caught lots of detail and light on the bird.

Personally, I think the crop could go either way. You have a "rule of thirds" placement for the bird, and the tree gives it perspective. If you wanted to do some pp work, you might move the bird closer to the tree and cut down on the expanse of sky - cut out some of the middle.

Where did you take this - Romania? It helps to know location for accurate identification.

[loebas]

Nice capture, loebas. You caught lots of detail and light on the bird.

Personally, I think the crop could go either way. You have a "rule of thirds" placement for the bird, and the tree gives it perspective. If you wanted to do some pp work, you might move the bird closer to the tree and cut down on the expanse of sky - cut out some of the middle.

Where did you take this - Romania? It helps to know location for accurate identification.

Thanks for reply, photo was taken in The Netherlands.
Bird flew out of a sparrow tree flew very low over the moore, then suddely turned around and I took this photo handheld in AV mode. Focus point was a bit behind the bird.

Looking forward to hear what kind of bird it is.

[tupe]

Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus ) is common to the Netherlands. The ones I saw in Google Images look a lot like your bird, but I didn't look at other species to compare.

Here's a list from AviBase
( http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?region=nl&pg=checklist&list=clements )
for the Netherlands:

FALCONIFORMES: Accipitridae
European Honey-buzzard /Pernis apivorus
Black-shouldered Kite/ Elanus caeruleus
Red Kite /Milvus milvus
Black Kite /Milvus migrans
Pallas's Fish-Eagle /Haliaeetus leucoryphus (Rare/Accidental Vulnerable )
White-tailed Eagle /Haliaeetus albicilla (Near-threatened )
Egyptian Vulture /Neophron percnopterus (Rare/Accidental )
Eurasian Griffon /Gyps fulvus (Rare/Accidental )
Cinereous Vulture /Aegypius monachus (Rare/Accidental Near-threatened )
Short-toed Eagle /Circaetus gallicus
Western Marsh-Harrier /Circus aeruginosus
Northern Harrier /Circus cyaneus
Pallid Harrier /Circus macrourus (Near-threatened )
Montagu's Harrier /Circus pygargus
Eurasian Sparrowhawk /Accipiter nisus
Northern Goshawk /Accipiter gentilis
Eurasian Buzzard /Buteo buteo
Long-legged Buzzard /Buteo rufinus
Rough-legged Hawk /Buteo lagopus
Lesser Spotted Eagle /Aquila pomarina
Greater Spotted Eagle /Aquila clanga (Vulnerable )
Steppe Eagle /Aquila nipalensis
Imperial Eagle /Aquila heliaca (Rare/Accidental Vulnerable )
Golden Eagle /Aquila chrysaetos
Bonelli's Eagle /Aquila fasciatus
Booted Eagle/ Aquila pennatus

[loebas]

Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus ) is common to the Netherlands. The ones I saw in Google Images look a lot like your bird, but I didn't look at other species to compare.

Here's a list from AviBase
( http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?region=nl&pg=checklist&list=clements )
for the Netherlands:

FALCONIFORMES: Accipitridae
European Honey-buzzard /Pernis apivorus
Black-shouldered Kite/ Elanus caeruleus
Red Kite /Milvus milvus
Black Kite /Milvus migrans
Pallas's Fish-Eagle /Haliaeetus leucoryphus (Rare/Accidental Vulnerable )
White-tailed Eagle /Haliaeetus albicilla (Near-threatened )
Egyptian Vulture /Neophron percnopterus (Rare/Accidental )
Eurasian Griffon /Gyps fulvus (Rare/Accidental )
Cinereous Vulture /Aegypius monachus (Rare/Accidental Near-threatened )
Short-toed Eagle /Circaetus gallicus
Western Marsh-Harrier /Circus aeruginosus
Northern Harrier /Circus cyaneus
Pallid Harrier /Circus macrourus (Near-threatened )
Montagu's Harrier /Circus pygargus
Eurasian Sparrowhawk /Accipiter nisus
Northern Goshawk /Accipiter gentilis
Eurasian Buzzard /Buteo buteo
Long-legged Buzzard /Buteo rufinus
Rough-legged Hawk /Buteo lagopus
Lesser Spotted Eagle /Aquila pomarina
Greater Spotted Eagle /Aquila clanga (Vulnerable )
Steppe Eagle /Aquila nipalensis
Imperial Eagle /Aquila heliaca (Rare/Accidental Vulnerable )
Golden Eagle /Aquila chrysaetos
Bonelli's Eagle /Aquila fasciatus
Booted Eagle/ Aquila pennatus

Thank you for all the effort and the link to this bird database.
Next time I will try to do the research myself.