Thank you for this nifty perch

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Coming into the parking lot, at Four Mile River I spotted this Red-tailed Hawk perch between two data cables, that spanned the parking lot. Fortunately, the Hawk cooperated and I fired off four frames.
Thank you for stopping by.
Peter
Ps I will get to more of the great photographs posted here.

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April 6, 2024, Canon R5, Canon 100-500mm & 1.4ext, f10, 700mm, 1/1600, ISO 4000. The shots are cropped around 50%. In DXO PhotoLab 7, I removed the upper cable and pressed the 4000 ISO with DeepPrime XD.

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Superb detail in the hawk in both frames, Peter. Too bad you couldn’t talk it into a nice head turn, but our models are just so uncooperative in this pastime. I like the our of focus trees in the background-plenty of blur to mellow them out without so much as to lose the sense of what they are.

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The hawk is nice and sharp and the BG has some interesting OOF patterns. I like the first over the second, but my opinion may change after I looked them over with the larger view. Second one is a bit more dynamic over the first and the hawk’s eye is focused on something of interest. Well done…Jim

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Hey Peter, these are great. Nice and sharp, and I really like the OOF BG trees. The second seems to be intently looking at something interesting.

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you Had your camera at the right place and the right time. Good look at these hawks. I do love the second image a little better because of the head positioning. Natural perch would have of course been better but you get what you get. Hope you’re staying healthy.

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Hi Dennis, Jim, Ed & David
Thank you of your comments. I spotted this Hawk, just as I started down to the boat launch and it was kind enough to stay put until I backup and angled the car to get this photographs.
Peter
They just have a better Union.

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Excellent detail.