Some great shots there as usual Especially like the robin in number 4 with the wing up - quite a unique shot

Very cool indeed!

Thanks again everyone for the kind comments I'll post some different birds when I have trawled through all my shots.

Cheers

Thanks very much folks

John/Jumbo - I was at the School of Falconry/Bird of Prey Centre at Old Warden Park near Bedford. A cool place! and the park is also home to the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage aircraft so on another day there may even have been an airshow of planes as well as birds!

There are plenty more pics on my flickr stream if anyone wants to see more.

Cheers

Hello all. I haven't posted any pics for a while, but last weekend, in the small pocket of reasonable weather within what has been a very ropey few days now, I was out taking pictures of some birds of prey at a Falconry centre. I took rather a large number and so far have only been through a bunch of portrait shots I took of a rather glorious Kestrel, so I thought I would post a handful here.

I was using the K-5 with sigma 100-300 f4, which made an impressive combo (IMO), and also grabbed some closer-ups with the DFA 100 on my back-up K-7...

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6. With his friendly falconer chum!



I hope you like these, any C&C welcome. I am working through hundreds more of various other birds, so maybe will post more in the not-too-distant future.

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I agree with your ID Peter. Quite a handsome looking creature I think too.

Regards

More great shots. These are VERY photogenic!

Well executed!

These are very cool pics indeed. The first is a real corker, but I reckon the squirrel must have sussed you out on the next two as he's sticking his tongue out!

You might want to search the forum (and the rest of the web) for 'arctic butterfly', which is a special brush created for sensor cleaning - I know in general people praise it very highly on here, although I have not used it myself...

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Nice one - I like the sunbursts and especially the veins in the leaf.

Well done