Common kestrel Male

[girisholeti]

Canon 7D, Canon 500mm f4@f8, ISO 200, 1/320 Sec

[Nick Palmieri]

Nice one. I like the over the shoulder look. The detail in the bird is nice and the BG and environment work well.

[Loi Nguyen]

Beautiful bird, sharp, good eye contact, nice perch, and a nice BG. Good light, too. Well done.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Girish,

Very clean image with great detail throughout. The look-back head angle is great. Catchlight adds the bit of life to the eye.

Looking forward to more from this series, especially if you got any in flight!

Miguel

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Girish, love the light in this, and well timed to capture the lookback pose. Great DOF throughout the whole image, sharp with lovely colours, and I wish you had a touch of space on the RHS, so that the piece of perch is not touching the edge of the frame.

[Alan Murphy]

Beautiful image. The perch is just great, as is the BG and bird.

[Richard Unsworth]

A hard shot to make i am still trying to get this close - how??

[HadiAnsari]

Hi Girish.The detail in the bird is nice and the BG and environment work well

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful light, great perch, terrific look-back pose, and smooth bg. Checks all the boxes for me. Well done.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful light colours and pose, I would consider cropping about 12mm from the base, also depending upon crop I would attempt to include the tip of the branch on the RHS, failing that I would clone a bit off so that it looked as if it was within the frame, maybe even take the tip of another branch and clone it to put a few leaves on the end.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Sweet warm light, lovely perch & BG. Thank for sharing Girish.

[christopher galeski]

its all been said,great image,well done.

[Peter Dexter]

Really excellent! The bird is just perfect. Despite the popularity of "asymetrical placement of subject" on this site I think there is excessive "negative space" on the left of the image.

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent light, details and bg.