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Roman Kurywczak
01-07-2011, 09:52 AM
Congratulations Bryan Hix for your image "Dec Theme: Cooper's vs rabbit " being chosen as the Avian Image of the Week for the week ending 12/31/2010!!!


I was out at Montrose beach this morning in Chicago and as I was walking back to my car, I noticed this rabbit that clearly had something wrong with it as it was listing to one side and could only run in tight circles. I put my 600mm lens, Mk3, and tripod in the car and walked over to see what the deal was. The rabbit ran when I was about 3 feet away and slid under the fence. I decided to let in be and walked back around to my car. When I turned back to look, this Cooper's Hawk swooped in a started attacking the rabbit. It made several runs at it and fortunately I had my 50D with my new 70-200mm f/2.8 II with me and I walked right up to the action and started shooting. I have about 7 good shots, so I thought I would post at least one. I liked this because the rabbit is in mid-air and snow is flying. Pretty awesome to be that close. In the end, the rabbit hunkered down under a bush with the Cooper's perched about 10 feet above it. I'm sure it didn't end well for the rabbit.

Canon 50 D
Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM II
ISO 320, 1/4000th@f/4, AvMode, Eval 0 comp
9:35am, 22 degrees
LR 3.3, PSE9: Crop, adj shadows, sharpen, cloned out branch

Doug Brown
01-07-2011, 01:59 PM
Well deserved Bryan! Simply an awesome image!

Harshad Barve
01-07-2011, 06:32 PM
Congratulations Bryan

RakeshDhareshwar
01-08-2011, 12:06 AM
Woah !! This is a billiant capture . Well deserved !!

denise ippolito
01-09-2011, 01:16 PM
Great timing! Congratulations Brian and well deserved!

Robert Amoruso
01-10-2011, 07:08 PM
Well done. Congratulations Bryan.

Bryan Hix
01-11-2011, 06:49 PM
Thanks everyone! I appreciate the comments.

Daniel Cadieux
01-11-2011, 07:21 PM
Congratulations!! Well deserved:cheers:

Kiran Poonacha
01-12-2011, 11:56 AM
A true winner... congrats Bryan..

Morkel Erasmus
01-16-2011, 04:43 PM
missed this one! what a cracker! congratulations...

Gerald_Gilligan
02-27-2011, 06:20 AM
Great Capture !