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    This is the grey squirrel found in the USA it is very common in the UK, having displaced the red squirrel to a large extent. The log was placed short distance from my hide and I placed seeds and peanuts on a plant pot base inside the hollow log in the hope that I would be able to attract magpies and jays. The inevitable happened and I caught this little guy in the act!

    Camera Model Canon EOS 50D
    Firmware Firmware Version 1.0.7
    Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
    Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/250
    Av( Aperture Value ) 6.3
    Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
    Exposure Compensation -2/3
    ISO Speed 200
    Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM
    Flash Off
    White Balance Mode Auto
    AF Mode One-Shot AF

    The light was cloudy and occasionally bright, I have warmed up the colour temperature a little. All comments welcome.

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    Beautiful image , lovely perch :D, nice eye contact and BG , You gotta love that tail
    TFS

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    Cute capture Jonathan, they will eat you out of house & home.

    Might try if you can, rotating this log 90 degrees CCW so the little aperture in the front allows you to view more of this little fellow. Might have gone to f/5.6 to increase your SS & or, upped your ISO too. Good defused BG.
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    Looks like he's guarding the castle keep. You couldn't have asked for him to take a better position. The light, color, and details are excellent.

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    Looks like the little critter is in a studio :) Will be tough feeding birds there :)

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    Very nice Jonathan,

    Great BKGR and eye contact. Maybe a touch more DOF would have allowed the front side of the trunk to be more in focus.

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    Austin

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    Sweet image Jonathan. Good use of the perch, exposure color and detail look good. Steve makes a good observation of turning log towards hide. TFS
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    I agree that a narrow aperture would have brought the entire log into focus and the texture would have come out better. Ofcourse, that would have reduced the shutter speed. So increasing ISO would have helped with narrow aperture.

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    Sabyasachi

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