Happy New Year,2015.

[Satish Ranadive]

Eurasian Sparrowhawk, juvenile, very rare winter visitor. First record for Pune city. Lifer for me.

Image was created in last week Dec,2014. Basic editing and cropped for composition.
ISO :400, 1/800,@5.6.Manual.550D,100-400.

Thanks for viewing ,appreciation, comments and critiques.
Kind Regards.
Satish.

[Warren Spreng]

Brand new to this site, love this shot with the subject staring you down!

[shane shacaluga]

Wonderful image Satish. These are common in my area but doesnt make them any less spectacular.

Like the setting. Typical sparrowhawk habitat

Thanks for sharing and happy new year


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[Bill Dix]

A lovely shot, Satish. Maybe just a sliver on the bottom for the virtual tail? Congrats on the lifer.

Have a Happy New Year! Thanks for all of your comments in 2014.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for your appreciations.

Regards,
Satish.

[Satish Ranadive]

A lovely shot, Satish. Maybe just a sliver on the bottom for the virtual tail? Congrats on the lifer.

Have a Happy New Year! Thanks for all of your comments in 2014.

Thanks a lot for the comments,Sir. I do not have space at the bottom.This is cropped from horizontal (full frame) to vertical. Tail was obscured by another branch.

Regards,
Satish.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Congratulations on the lifer, Satish. This is a striking raptor and you captured a beautiful pose. Amazing concentration in those eyes.

Always appreciate your comments and critiques.


Geoffrey

[keith mitchell]

Satish congratulations getting this fine shot ,superb feather details and a nice relaxed pose, not easy to get with Sparrow hawks.

Best wishes for 2015.
regards keith.

[gail bisson]

Happy New Year to you and yours Satish!
Congrats on your lifer.
Nice light and fluffed up pose.I would like a bit more room on the bottom,
Gail

[dankearl]

Best to you , Satish, Nice eye contact, love the feet.

[adrian dancy]

Good techs. I might want space for the tail but it matters less in this image. I can handle a busy BG but the two light twigs which emanate from each supercilium are distracting as are the wider branches that come out of each shoulder. But still a good capture.

[Loi Nguyen]

Congrats on this new species for you, Satish. Good light and great details. You must have been pretty close for such details with the 100-400. The BG is a bit busy, but there isn't much you can do about it. Happy New a Year to you. Loi

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Happy new year Satish ji. Great capture, love the eye contact and details. Congrats on getting this.
Cheers,
Sanjeev

[Diane Miller]

Beautiful! The best wishes for the New Year to you!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the stare and the talon! Nice light. If you had time taking a few verticals in-camera would have given you the space below (sometimes easier said in hindsight!).

Congrats on the rarity and lifer...and especially...Happy New Year to you, too.

[Satish Ranadive]

Thank you all for the feed back and beautiful words of appreciations.
Happy Birding....

Regards,
Satish.

[Sonny Rostami]

Beautiful image.
Congrats on your lifer
Sonny


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[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely image Satish, I saw one in Tirupati early December 2013. It roosted each night in a tree against the apartment I was staying in. I got a pretty ordinary document only shot. Definitely a lifer for me as were most of the birds I saw in India.

[mohammad reza shahab]

I like the pose and eye contact.great details.