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    Taken a couple weeks ago on a country road. This hawk was sitting on a telephone pole. Stopped and jumped out. Handheld. I was surprised the the bird made a semicircle around my vehicle before taking off.
    Red-tailed Hawks usually make beeline straight away from you as soon as you put on the brakes. I have a wings down image but I still like this one a little better even though the left wing position isn't ideal.
    It kind of made me wonder how many BIF images of Red-tailed Hawks I had. Searched Lightroom, not many. It did kind of make me chuckle, I had a few so-so ones from 2011. I was using a manual focus 400mm/f3.5
    Nikkor. I would "punish" my youngest teenage son (and there was never a dearth of reasons) by making him drive me around country roads while I rode shotgun and took images from the passenger side.

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    Jack:

    Very nice underwing display on the near wing, well exposed. He is a bit past your position , so angling away a bit, although the head is turned back your way a bit which helps. The primaries look a bit sharper than the head to me, so I wonder where the focus point was placed. I know you did't have a lot of time to fine tune this as he flew away!

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    a few moments before this with the bird flying towards you would have been killer. details are excellent I'd de-saturate the sky a bit and also reduce contrast

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    Not as good as the new one posted. Like the view of that near wing.

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