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24-03-2011, 10:04 PM
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| | | No lunch for a Kestrel
Reasonably happy with these three images. Taken today on the Elmley RSPB reserve on the Isle of Sheppey. Nikon D80, Nikon 300mm f4 lens plus TC 1.4 II. Think all three would have been a little better without the TC which, (after just two days of use), I suspect is better suited with the 300mm f4 lens for real close ups only.
It all happened a bit fast, I had to......., no.............., lets have the Kestrel tell the story:-
I live on the RSPB reserve at Elmley. Great place. Lots of photographers in cars which they aren't allowed to get out of on the approach track. I love that, so I hunt just above the rough ground next to the track, just to wind them up.
Here I am. Starting to hover as a Yeti "look a like" drove up. Didn't he panic, trying to get his car in the right spot for the sun and get his camera pointing at me out of the car window. 
Now the bit I like best. Just as he points the camera at me I drop like a stone. Yeehaaaa...........
At best he'll have me right at the bottom of the frame with lots of Photoshop work to do. At worst, (best for me), he'll have a frame with just blue sky where I was a second or less ago. I get them everytime with that. 
A very quick landing and I'm off like a rocket. If he's really quick he'd have just got his camera re-focused on the ground where I landed. Then I'm off so quick he'll either just get a photo of rough ground, or of me disappearing out of the right hand side of the frame. 
Now where's my lunch? Oh bother. I was so enjoying winding the Yeti up, I left it behind on the ground.
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24-03-2011, 10:23 PM
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Beautiful photos Yeti, I love the kessys tale 
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25-03-2011, 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by pammosley  Beautiful photos Yeti, I love the kessys tale | Thank you. I would rather have seen all that a couple or three hours earlier when the sun was a bit lower and putting a bit less shadow on the first image. But you can't have everything! Just wish I could get half as close to the short eared owl on Sheppey. I'll be trying again today...............
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25-03-2011, 09:28 AM
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Excellent pictures, I particularly like the middle one.
Cheers. Nik.
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25-03-2011, 09:33 AM
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Lovely photos Bryan. You're shots are getting better and better! 
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25-03-2011, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by nikolai_avenger Excellent pictures, I particularly like the middle one.
Cheers. Nik. | yeah that has to be my fav as well...
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Originally Posted by actionfinch yeah that has to be my fav as well... | Pure luck getting that middle shot. I was shooting the bird hovering and there it was gone! Doing that fabulous sudden drop that Kestrels do. It was right at the bottom of that frame when I looked, and I spent some time with Photoshop putting sky back underneath it so I could crop the image better.
Doubt I will ever get a shot of a Kestrel dropping like that again from that close. Or from any distance.
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