Bathing Buzzard

[markyboy.1967]

This buzzard stayed in the bath for around 30mins or so even though my shutter was getting hammered. He was a bit close for the big lens but the zoom of my 120-300 came in very very handy-thank god.

Alert buzzard by markmolloy, on Flickr

 

[BRASH]

Another belter!!

 

[jbw]

Excellent bird photography
James

 

[cruso]

stunning work mark

 

[GREENGRASS]

Fantastic image Mark great POV and feather detail.

 

[Dexster]

Well done Mark.

 

[canon_togger]

Cracking shot Mark

 

[DerekLees]

Cracking image!

 

[brianernie]

A cracker

 

[bossy]

Absolute stunner

 

[Zephyr]

This is superb

 

[WillNicholls]

Very hard to get close to so well done.

 

[Neil B]

Nice sharp eye and the light has brought out the feather detail very well, quality image again Mark

 

[mulch]

lovely image, I particularly like the detail in the feathers and the unusual pose.

 

[fracster]

Cracking shot mate.
Alans place?

 

[markyboy.1967]

Nah Ade, this was one of the raptors we got in Hungary. The Sparrowhawk came within a metre or two but this was aprox 5 metres if i remember correctly.

 

[dinners]

30mins - not a patch on my wife.

Cracking shot.

 

[fracster]

Nah Ade, this was one of the raptors we got in Hungary. The Sparrowhawk came within a metre or two but this was aprox 5 metres if i remember correctly.

Cheers Mark, thanks for the info.

 

[Michal28]

Nice shot ! birds are often most active early in the morning or late in the afternoon, you might need to get up before it gets light to capture special photographs. Get out there early and perhaps use a blind to discover what they’re eating, their mating habits, and to witness the care of their young. It might take a couple days of going out and not shooting anything, just observing and taking mental notes to build up your knowledge in order to capture that outstanding photo.

 

[Swanseajack]

Fantastic, probably once in a lifetime shot.

 

[markyboy.1967]

Nice shot ! birds are often most active early in the morning or late in the afternoon, you might need to get up before it gets light to capture special photographs. Get out there early and perhaps use a blind to discover what they’re eating, their mating habits, and to witness the care of their young. It might take a couple days of going out and not shooting anything, just observing and taking mental notes to build up your knowledge in order to capture that outstanding photo.

Thanks. I think getting ip at 3.45am is early enough especially when sun up isnttill around 5am.lol. I also did a 24 hr stint in 3 seperate hides, one of which is lit at night for night heron.

 

[markyboy.1967]

Thanks for all the comments folks.