Ferruginous Liftoff

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Description

There’s an area I like to visit this time of year that is likely to have a very photogenic ferruginous hawk perched on one of the old roadside utility poles for me to stop and capture. Here’s a handsome specimen I got one recent morning.

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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, 1/3200th, f 9.0, hand held, 840mm, ISO 1250, cropped to 3987v x 2955

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Beautiful pose, Dave. It looks like you cropped it a fair amount and I think it might work even better if you added some canvas all the way around. The bird is feeling very crowded to me.

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You seem to live in a raptor friendly area, Dave. Beautiful look at the hawk. Agree it could use more breathing space.

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This time of year is good for raptor spotting not too far from here. This FH was pretty close, hence the tight cropping but I could’ve created more “content aware” filling around it…