Harriers
The hawk, not the airplane.
I was photographing near Willard Bay on Saturday, and found a canal with a frozen duck in it. Saw a hawk eating off of the carcass, pulled forward in the car, put on the 300 2.8 and the 1.4 teleconverter. Wow, a whopping 420mm's of POWER. Hehe. Got me pretty close to the action w/out having to be, well, close.
I had to wait about 1.5 hours though for the Harriers and the one Red-Tailed Hawk to come back and eat. It was amazing to watch them fight over the carcass. I *tried* to get a shot with two birds in the same frame. This was as good as it got. I shot until I had to push it up to 800, then thought I'd had my shot. 6 gigs later and I had seen enough.
I was photographing near Willard Bay on Saturday, and found a canal with a frozen duck in it. Saw a hawk eating off of the carcass, pulled forward in the car, put on the 300 2.8 and the 1.4 teleconverter. Wow, a whopping 420mm's of POWER. Hehe. Got me pretty close to the action w/out having to be, well, close.
I had to wait about 1.5 hours though for the Harriers and the one Red-Tailed Hawk to come back and eat. It was amazing to watch them fight over the carcass. I *tried* to get a shot with two birds in the same frame. This was as good as it got. I shot until I had to push it up to 800, then thought I'd had my shot. 6 gigs later and I had seen enough.
posted by Michael at
7:31 PM
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Nice. By the way, Harriers are hawks not falcons. Sorry, I'm such a bird nerd.
Hawks? Alrighty then, I'll change it.
I'm turning into a bird nerd myself. I was thinking that as I spent nearly 3 hours waiting and watching them eat.
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