Wish I had a witty title

[Mike Tracy]

Ospreys at ≈ 50' up. I know it's really tight up top but I wasn't expecting him to enter at this steep of angle.

MKIII, 70-200 with 1.4x @ 230mm, 1/800, f/6.3, ISO 800

[Arthur Morris]

Nicely framed and a good job of getting it all in the frame. Looks like a bit of a red cast.... Like the branch and the sharpness of the incoming bird. Is it noise or bad BOKEH in the BKGR?

[Ken Watkins]

That's a tight scrape, if it were me I would miss the tips of the wings. :)

I agree with Arties comment on the BG,

[Mike Tracy]

Is it noise or bad BOKEH in the BKGR?

I suspect it's funky bokeh which caused me to have reservations to post it. Could it have been a result of the 1.4 tc with this lens ? This isn't a combo I ever use.

[Jeff Dyck]

"I saw a fish "this big" while I was out, but ohhhh-nooo - you have me doing home improvments..."

[Chris van Rooyen]

Hi MIke, looks like a wonderful angle ghat you have there. Why the low shutter speed?

[Mike Tracy]

Why the low shutter speed?

I had already pushed the ISO as high as I like with birds. I know I could have opened up a stop (or 2) but my reasoning at the time was to give me as much latitude as possible in regards to DOF in case I missed my focus point. I also wanted the female to be as reasonably sharp as possible knowing the likely hood of them both being on the same plane was small.

[Arthur Morris]

I suspect it's funky bokeh which caused me to have reservations to post it. Could it have been a result of the 1.4 tc with this lens ? This isn't a combo I ever use.

I will never hope to understand BOKEH. Some lenses have bad BOKEH all the time. Others only as certain apertures with or without TCs. Distance from the subject to the BKGR is also a factor. I have no clue :)