The Jack Merlin was my nemesis bird. We saw him briefly in 2014 when shooting with Dave in SoCal. Unfortunately it was right before a storm and with poor light I couldn't get the shot I wanted. During thanksgiving I went to shoot with Dave again, initially he didn't show up and I had almost lost hope. On the last evening just an hour before when I was leaving, we decided to do another circle in the area just in case and our luck stroke. The Jack Merlin was eating a bird on a perch. We could pull up close and I made some frames including this flight frame. He is small and flies quite fast so I was happy to grab this frame
1D-X 600II + 1.4X III. ISO 800. f/5.6 1/3200sec hand held. processed with DPP 4.3. I hope you like it.