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Red-tailed hawk on lamp post
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Red-tailed hawk on lamp post (Buteo jamaicensis)

This red-tailed hawk flew a low pass over some bushes with sparrows (didn't get any) then alighted on a lamp post about 10ft from me. I was so close with my giant 1600mm setup that I had to backup about 20ft and even then was barely able to get him in the full frame.

Quite an amazing amount of detail. This is downsampled to 5 MP (from 16MP), but you can still see the shadows of the feathers on the pupil.

This was shot with an Olympus E-M5.2 with Nikon 800mm AI-s lens, manual focus, on a tripod with gimbal head. I believe the lens was at f/11, but it might have been f/8 -- the metabones lens adapter does not convey the f-stop setting.
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Location
Long Marine Lab, Santa Cruz, CA
Date taken
Oct 23, 2018
Scientific name
Buteo jamaicensis
Equipment used
Olympus E-m5.2, Nikon 800mm AI-s, Metabones adapter, Tripod
Kits
A fabulous capture with wonderful detail and light, Marc.
 
KC Foggin
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This is one smokin' frontal view of this Hawk and a great capture Marc!
 
Joelle-Marcelle
A most impressive shot of this beautiful hawk, Marc. Such fine detail!I like the warm colours of the plumage too.
 

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