A subject that is incredibly shy and will not tolerate getting close to on foot, you just can't rock up and stick a 500mm lens at it, it would just go by the time you are less than a 100m away.
With 'lockdown' easing, I took up an offer of shooting with an old friend of mine who had this female Sparrowhawk visiting a small location of his, she must have had a brood because she was coming down on a regular basis and clearing the road kill put out. So... Wood pigeon in hand (road kill) we set-up things around 7.00am and got quickly back into the hide, but that morning she decided to visit later and after 4 hours finally showed. Allowing her to settle and just waiting meant that she was not phased by any camera shutters going off and with the camera set-up I could easily swop from R5 to 1DX MKIII on the double mount rig creating different options and as the light was very variable and so having the 1DX3 I knew I could easy push the ISO if required.
Thanks to those who commented or views the last posting
Steve
Subject: Sparrowhawk (f) (Accipiter nisus)
Location: UK
Camera: Canon EOS-1D X Mark III
Lens: EF200-400mm f/4L IS USM
Exposure: 1/1000s at f/5.6 ISO4000
Original format: Landscape, very slight crop
Processed via: LRCC 9.4 & PSCC2020








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. Stunning fine details and the sharpness is right on .... how it should be , IMHO . 
