My book agrees with your book. Appears this is a Ferruginous hawk. Somehow, there being more frame space behind the critter than in front works. Maybe it's the larger limb in that area that makes the difference. I really think, however, it's the fact that it is resting rather than flying. Nice crisp image especially considering the dim light and amount of crop. Well caught, Frank!
--- On Sat, 5/15/10, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: P N Stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO Ferruginous Hawk > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 3:32 PM > That's what he look's like to me. The > beak and breast coloring match up to pics of that beasty. > I've been hearing him for a couple of days. Finally, Grace > and I spotted him in a tree right behind the garage when we > came home from the park. Unfortunately, I didn't have proper > long glass mounted, just the DA* 60-250, so this is cropped > to about 1/3 of frame. It was also getting a bit dim, so I > had to shoot at ISO 1600 to get any unaided flash up into > the tree. F4.5 @ 1.320th. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11014855 > > --PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
