American Kestrel

[David Salem]

Caught this handsome male kestrel last year in a nice banking pose. The background is a dark storm cloud.

1DX---840mm---f6.3---ss1/3200---ISO1000---HH@8:15am---45% crop

Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it.

David

[Glenn Conlan]

Its a winner Dave, excellent wing position and he was looking in your direction to top it off!

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent banking pose with great heat turn, David.

[christopher galeski]

Nice banking pose,nice head turn,like the BG how it goes with some of the birds plumage,and nice detail.TFS.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent wing pose and sharp details, David.

[gail bisson]

Nothing to critique here! Lovely banking pose, the perfect HA and gun metal gray BG all add up to a super image!
Gail

[adrian dancy]

Excellent flight capture here David.

[Grace Scalzo]

Beautiful flight shot, David. I love how the background matches him.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet topside view with a great wing position and BG, not to mention you got the male!

[David Salem]

Thanks for the comments everyone

[Daniel Cadieux]

Way cool. I love the dorsal view and the perfect head angle.

[Bill Dix]

Great look toward you. Good wing spread and dorsal view. No nits here. Well done.

[Diane Miller]

Holy Cow! Wonderful!!!

[Jim Crosswell]

Stunning image David! I like the banking pose, IQ, details, BG and composition.

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi David, very cool top side with beautiful colors. Well done. Loi

[David Salem]

Thanks again everyone. I appreciate it.

[Eric Dienesch]

The Light made it,
the position is wonderfull, i cant say anything else :c3:

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Dave, Im always late to your party, but I still get to attend. Great eye contact here with the head turn, and the banking pose shows off the wing detail so well. I really like the colours of the Kestrel against the natural dark cloud BG. Very well captured.