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Redtail Hawk, taken this morning. He caught and swallowed whole, a female goldfinch.
I have entire sequence, the capture and swallow.. it took seconds, I have never seen a hawk
swallow a bird whole.
Bad light, high iso, I still thought it was cool..
D500, 420mm (300 w/ 1.4), f4, 1/640, iso4500
PP in Capture/Affinity
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Wow. fantastic, please share the sequence, congrats we all dream of opportunities like this well done Dan
Quick rough jpegs for interest. mods can delete if they want
The catch and the final gulp.
HawkSwallow 1.jpgHawkSwallow3.jpg
Yes to a cool series. Hh and IQ held up well for the OP. Bad luck on the perch.
with love, artie
Nice to see the sequence of shots here. The perch is what it is.
Thanks for sharing the sequence! I like the impact of this image. I do wish you had a touch more DOF, but doesn't look like it was much of a choice since you were already at ISO 4500 and only 1/640 SS.
That's a pretty sweet encounter, and that stare in the first shot is pretty money. Memorable more for the action than the techs (because of the light), but still a really
cool encounter to memorialize.
you made the best out of the situation, nice behavior captured I think processing can be improved but not significantly. feel bad for the prey but such is nature
TFS
