Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
Shop deviantART for the
holidays and save BIG!
Click here! :holly:
[x]

deviantART

 
©2009 =kayaksailor
:iconkayaksailor:

Artist's Comments

An adult and an immature (?) Red Tailed Hawk were circling in the thermal updrafts above my deck today.

Although they were this close together, this is a composit...

I'm getting better at this :w00t:

Comments


love 1 1 joy 0 0 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconplanetshu:
Great capture!
Whenever I try for birds they turn out blurry. :(
They're really beautiful. (when they are in focus :) )

--
*HDR-Club =NaturPics-club =PanoramaClub *Scapes-club*SquareBySquare
:iconryser915:
Fantastic! Yup, the one on the left is immature :-) He has his tail feathers though, so he isn't THAT young :-) The real juvies have little to no pattern in their tail feathers, this one has his, they just haven't turned red yet :D
:iconicedreamer56:
You must live in one very magic place. You've got some great neighbours. This is a great capture. Fanatsic detail and the light through the feathers is wonderful.
:iconparadigmparadox:
:thumbsup:

--
Thanks for all :+fav:s and comments! Here's my New and Popular stuff, and I love seeing your experiments!
:iconla-vita-a-bella:
Very nice and you are definitely getting good at this! :D (Just so you know, I can see two spots that are probably sensor dust...one above the tail feathers of the bird on the right and one spot up in the left hand corner.) I used to never notice that stuff until I got into microstock. If you have image editing software, you can clone it out very easily.

--
Successful people spend their time figuring out how they CAN, not why they can't.
:iconkayaksailor:
Thankyou! I've been trying and trying to catch them - they are overhead several times a week...this isn't perfect but it's the best yet :love: And, yes, they are beautiful! We've got several different types of hawks...but I haven't been able to catch any other than these redtails...yet! :giggle:

--
Member of =TreesClub and *Everything-Nikon and *TreesWithCharacter and a firm believer in *NNTR (check it out - ask me if you don't understand!) Just joined ~Finer-Things-Club
:iconkayaksailor:
Could he (or she?) be last spring's fledglings? Or would they be two years old? So they go from no strips, to strips, to red? Very cool!

I really hope we can find the nest! I know we've got (or had last summer) a kestral pair :love:

--
Member of =TreesClub and *Everything-Nikon and *TreesWithCharacter and a firm believer in *NNTR (check it out - ask me if you don't understand!) Just joined ~Finer-Things-Club
:iconkayaksailor:
It is wonderful! I like our neighbors, too :D

I know we have so many interesting ones because we have very few of the human variety...:giggle:

--
Member of =TreesClub and *Everything-Nikon and *TreesWithCharacter and a firm believer in *NNTR (check it out - ask me if you don't understand!) Just joined ~Finer-Things-Club
:iconkayaksailor:
:bow:

--
Member of =TreesClub and *Everything-Nikon and *TreesWithCharacter and a firm believer in *NNTR (check it out - ask me if you don't understand!) Just joined ~Finer-Things-Club
:iconryser915:
They get their red feathers around the age of two, so this one is probably about one :-). As for the nest, don't count on finding it :-). They start building a new nest (or fixing up an old one) around January/February, and they normally pick the absolute tallest tree in their territory. They actually mate for life :love:.

Details

March 6
946 KB
106 KB
800×655

Statistics

71
74 [who?]
457 (0 today)
15 (0 today)

Camera Data

NIKON CORPORATION
NIKON D100
125/100000 second
F/6.3
300 mm
Mar 6, 2009, 2:10:13 PM

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map