Sparrowhawk in flight

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I popped out to my local barn owl spot, with the intent of seeing the barn owls....alas I ran out of time! However, just as I was putting the window up I noticed something unpigeon-like heading towards me, I grabbed the camera...and it turned out to be a sparrowhawk! It flew right over the car, at about 15ft :D However...I only had 6 inches of window opening to work with :bang: Managed to fire off these 2 shots though...at around 235mm Once again...proof it's not the length...it's the luck ;)

I am looking in particular for editing critique....I'm on my new Macbook so can't compare the screen to my PC at the moment, I just want to know how it looks on other screens!

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Good grab shots Phil.........(y)

Imagine how much better they would have been at 400,or more,though.......;)
 
Nice shots, cant comment on the editing though, having issues with my calibration at the moment.
 
fracster said:
Good grab shots Phil.........(y)

Imagine how much better they would have been at 400,or more,though.......;)
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The irony of it is..I had upto 400mm available! ;)

Looks a bit bright to me now I've decided to put the PC on!
 
purpleclouds said:
The irony of it is..I had upto 400mm available! ;)
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Well why didn`t you use it then mate?I mean its not like sparrers are fast,is it?.......:LOL:
 
fracster said:
Well why didn`t you use it then mate?I mean its not like sparrers are fast,is it?.......:LOL:
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You'd be surprised when it is heading straight at you! It was all over in 3 seconds..just zoomed out and hoped for the best! :p
 
Yeah,that is how it goes at times Phil.

The birds seem very bright on my pc,could be a fault my end though mate.....:shrug:
 
They're bright on my parents PC too...going to sit here and adjust the Mac until it's right! :) Cheers Ade (y)
 
Very good grab shots PC... (y) ... would love to know what bird, or part of, it's carrying though... :cautious:


They both looks fine on the Air tonight... :D







:p
 
Venomator said:
Very good grab shots PC... (y) ... would love to know what bird, or part of, it's carrying though... :cautious:


They both looks fine on the Air tonight... :D







:p
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:LOL: Clever...I see what you did there ;) Whatever it was, there wasn't anything recognizable left of it, I initially thought it was mud..for nesting perhaps? It looked very brown!
 
;)


Nah - they don't use mud as far as I know just piles of twigs and stuff... :D


Likely to be blood dried brown on a bit of a carcass or a small lbj... :shrug:





:p
 
Venomator said:
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Nah - they don't use mud as far as I know just piles of twigs and stuff... :D


Likely to be blood dried brown on a bit of a carcass or a small lbj... :shrug:





:p
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Yes I suspected so, that idea came from the fact there were no recognisable features :LOL: Probably a sparrow or dunnock! Perhaps even a mouse? They're flatly coloured?
 
Not sure a Sprawk would go for mammals as I believe they are exclusively hunters of fliers... ;) ... they don't even take dead birds... :cautious:





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I thought it had a carcass in its talons, but didn`t want to say in case it upset the people who live in "Bambi" world...............:LOL:
 
Well taken fleeting opportuunity Phil. (y)

They look like they might stand a sharpen but the files are very small at 63 and 57 kb.If you could post them a bit larger and less compressed they'd take the sharpening better. It all depends how big they are in the frame initially of course.
 
fracster said:
I thought it had a carcass in its talons, but didn`t want to say in case it upset the people who live in "Bambi" world...............:LOL:
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Oh noes! Perhaps I'd better take them down ;):LOL:

CT said:
Well taken fleeting opportuunity Phil. (y)

They look like they might stand a sharpen but the files are very small at 63 and 57 kb.If you could post them a bit larger and less compressed they'd take the sharpening better. It all depends how big they are in the frame initially of course.
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Just whipped them through Lightroom so I will have another edit tomorrow! Thanks very much :)
 
Great grab shots (y)
as you said something un-pigeon like, I would guess that its a female
Males are a lot smaller
and that is definitely a meal its carrying


Venomator said:
Not sure a Sprawk would go for mammals as I believe they are exclusively hunters of fliers... ;) ... they don't even take dead birds... :cautious:
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Ven, they do take birds in flight thats their "speciality" but if times are tough
lots of mouths to feed ( a bit early) or lack of food they will hunt small rodents
like a Kestrel, hovering and dropping on them.
It takes a hell of a lot of energy to do that though and its not often done

Never known them to take carrion in the wild, but they take dead stuff in captivity
so I guess that they might if really pushed but, having said that I have never seen it or know
anyone that has
 
Well captured in hard circumstances Phil (y)

They look ok to me, I'll leave the processing aspect to the experts though :)

I'll be interested to see what you do with them .
 
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