2nd 40D hawks and stuff

NetgardenNetgarden Registered Users Posts: 829 Major grins
edited October 7, 2007 in Wildlife
Hello everyone. You have great stuff here in the forum. I wish I could post comments to you all, but my neck won't let me sit and type that long!
Heres my recent shots with the 40D and the 300f4, once I get the over-contrast figured out on small birds in flight, and focus issues with small focus areas, I am going to love this camera. When it's on, it bang on. For some reason the colors are more accurate when multicolored backgrounds.
Is this a Coopers Hawk? Looks so close to a sharp shinned...
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Comments

  • GiphsubGiphsub Registered Users Posts: 2,662 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2007
    Wow! Great pics, but I really love the first spider shot, and the dragonfly shot in flight! Nice! clap.gif
    Mike Helbig

    http://www.michaelhelbigphotography.com
    http://www.thewildpig.blogspot.com
  • leaforteleaforte Registered Users Posts: 1,948 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2007
    Your hawk looks to be a chatty guy/gal. Nice captures.
    Growing with Dgrin



  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2007
    This is one cool shot...Linda!thumb.gif

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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2007
    great shots:ivar
    **If I keep shooting, I'm bound to hit something**
    Dave
  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2007
    I like all of them!
    Glenn

    My website | NANPA Member
  • NetgardenNetgarden Registered Users Posts: 829 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2007
    thanx everyone, here's a pic of the younger Coopers hawk there, trying to get in to an avary. I hope they stay! Yeah, he was very upset! Glad he squacked, because I'd never see him in the trees otherwise!
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2007
    Very nice set Linda thumb.gif

    What lens did you use to get that dragon in flight? That is quite a feat!!

    BTW, did you sort your monitor out?
    Birds
    Bugs
    Spiders
    Flowers
  • NetgardenNetgarden Registered Users Posts: 829 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2007
    Hi Al, thanx! I finally did sort the screen color out with SpyderII. It came pretty close anyway. I still look through my old pics and don't like them as well. Used to it now though. And add to that the 40D color change and I really miss the warmth in the whites and nature scenes. [especially with the 40D]Getting used to it though. I used the 70-200f4IS + 1.4x, and manual focused. Thnx to you and Jeff [jwear]for the help.
    BigAl wrote:
    Very nice set Linda thumb.gif

    What lens did you use to get that dragon in flight? That is quite a feat!!

    BTW, did you sort your monitor out?
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2007
    Wowza! Great pics. I always like a nice raptor pic, but I think my favs here are the spiders! The colors on that woodpecker are fantastic! It is as if there were a sheen to its feathers.
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2007
    Outstanding series Linda. clap.gif
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2007
    Is this a Coopers Hawk? Looks so close to a sharp shinned... this comment is one that I have gone over many times and even tho your shots you posted show the bird very well it is still a toss up headscratch.gif but coopers would be my pick the sharpshinned is a lot smaller and the coppers are more common -- nice work
    Jeff W

    “PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”

    http://jwear.smugmug.com/
  • ShasocShasoc Registered Users Posts: 691 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2007
    Excelent series, Linda. These rock. I like them all particularly the Acorn WP shots. clap.gifthumb.gif
    I agree with Jeff ID. I'm pretty sure that is a Cooper's Hawk. Sharpies have a more squared tail.
    Socrate
    "Natura artis magistra"
  • NetgardenNetgarden Registered Users Posts: 829 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2007
    Shasoc wrote:
    Excelent series, Linda. These rock. I like them all particularly the Acorn WP shots. clap.gifthumb.gif
    I agree with Jeff ID. I'm pretty sure that is a Cooper's Hawk. Sharpies have a more squared tail.

    Sorry to come back so late on this! I was told it may be a red shoulder hawk, and I wondered also. If it is, its not as red as the ones by my house. Go figure! These Juvies always mix me up! ;~)

    I hope to see him again. Maybe I can identify his noisy squawks. It did kind of sound like a red shoulder. but there are Coopers around there...ne_nau.gif
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