Everglades Snail Kite

[Fabs Forns]

This season we had a handful of Kites come to roost at the Allitgator corner of Anhinga Trail. Always really late in the day, most of them female.

Date: 3/27/09
Time: 6:09:44 PM
Model: NIKON D3
Lens (mm): 850 (500/4VR plus 1.7x)
ISO: 1250
Aperture: 6.7
Shutter: 1/500
Exp. Comp.: +0.3

[Randy Stout]

Fabs:

Very nice dorsal display, HA, comp.

Good detail for this ISO.

There are a few hot pixels in the whites and along the wing edges, minimal.

The eye looks a bit odd.

Thanks for sharing!

Randy

[Doug Brown]

Great flight pose, and I like the perfect head turn towards you. The eye doesn't have that classic red color of a Snail Kite.

[Chris Kotze]

Super angle and great detail. Excellent captured.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent banking angle Fabs, and love the detail from the top. I feel if you removed the catchlight in the eye, it would improve the eye. Just a thought.

[Tim Zurowski]

A lovely banking pose and great fanned tail here Fabs. Excellent work :)

[Mike Tracy]

Nice banking pose and I like the fanned tail as well. I am inclined to say this is a older juvenile male.