The Montagus Harrier Male

[Kiran Poonacha]

made this under overcast conditions. hence no catch light, Have also cleaned out some white wash from the ant hill. Its got a grass hopper in its feet.

Spec: 1/800,F 7.1, ISO 800, expo + 1/3.

Canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Rohan Kamath]

excellent details especially in overcast conditions...as usual a master raptor shot Kiran...

[Matt Vosniak]

Kiran, that yellow eye is just popping off the screen for me and drawing me in. Excellent shot I like the perch a lot and the bird and little grasshopper addition is great.

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image with beautiful compo , expo and details
TFS

[david cramer]

A lovely image with good detail and bg. I also love the perch.

[Clement Francis]

This is truely perfect in every way, just a over all super picture. Way to go Kiran.

[scott benson]

stunning shot,

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

As Shakin' Stevens sang decades ago. 'You drive me craaaazy' :D

Szimi

[Brian Barcelos]

Kiran Bhai, Wow perfect capture of this guy. All the details are there and that grasshopper puts it over the top for sure. Love the look back and that eye really grabs your attention. Only thing is it looks like it needs a little ccw rotation. Congrats

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement, I really appriciate and Value them.

Brian Bhai, the bird is positioned correctly. Why did you feel that, just wanted to understand.

Thanks again,

Kiran.

[James Salywoda]

So beautiful Kiran the Harrier really looks excellent against that bg such an excellent shot of it.

[Stu Bowie]

Kiran Bhai, I think Brian is looking at it as the legs are leaning backwards, and gives the impression of needing a rotation. Excellent feather detail, sharp, and well exposed. Killer BG too.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

You guys in India have so many great looking raptors!

And this is one of them, love the eye and dorsal view. BG and prey makes this one for me. I would only crop a bit on right so the bird would not seem to be so centered but that would be it. Congrats on a fine image.

[Michael Zajac]

Fantastic image. Sharpness,pose and BG all perfect.

[Lorant Voros]

The raptor master strikes again. Great work, Kiran, as usual. I love the sharpness, colors and BG. Looks like your raptors like these perches. Congratulations.

[Brian Barcelos]

Kiran Bhai, Like Stuart said I got a feel of it because of the legs but understand they stand with their legs bent anyway. Sorry for the confusion.

[denise ippolito]

Kiran, Excellent details and pose. Very nicely done.

[arash_hazeghi]

Beautiful Kiran, excellent perch, sh, BG and eye contact. Congrats

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Kiran...nothing to add. spectacular image. Love the clean BG among all the other things. not to mention the main subject itself.

KD

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light and sharpness, good angle, BG and the grasshopper adds to it. I would try to get more details in the black feathers.