Red Tailed Hawk

my first shots of a good ( closer than usual for me) RTH:

Great shot! I Was just about to post a shot I got of a juvenile RTH that I took about an hour ago. (quite a bit farther away than yours I'm afraid) After seeing this shot I think I'll wait a bit

2 Very nice shots!

Kenn

Oops. Meant shots, plural.

joe9047,
thanks for the nice comments! Go ahead and post your shots, I just got lucky and saw this crow harassing the RT and he landed in a tree, very large tree, he must of been at least 35-40 high. I quickly parked and grabbed my 40D which had the 300mm + 1.4 teleconverter on it and shot off about 15 shots before realizing I had the wrong settings! Luckily the RT cooperated and sat there long enough for me to correct the settings and I did get some good ones of him, some bad too, but I am happy with these two, not too many branches, etc in the way.

kenn3d,
thanks for the kind words!

Sweet shots, well done!

Nice focus, well lit, nice photos!

Great shots of a really hard bird to get close to (at least for me) Well done

Dang, these are really nice shots... Well done...

bromm, poppie guy,
thanks for the nice comments!

gabby16 wrote in post #7291096
Great shots of a really hard bird to get close to (at least for me) Well done

for me too! this was the first time I had the opportunity to get close up shots! Thanks!

Stormin 24
thanks very much!

Those are truly excellent. What makes them, more than anything else, is the eyes. They're perfectly in focus, with a nice catchlight. Good job!

Great captures...you had some nice light and you put it to good use. Very nice detail in both images...great shooting.