Nice raptor catch, Paul. I can't get at my saved images at this time and my field guide does not show the underside of the included Bald, but I'd be surprised to find solid white on or under a Bald even if just approaching maturity. With the number I've seen in the wild along with the couple dozen my pro friend, Brian Shul, has displayed and those he has sent to me for comment, I can't help but doubt the one you shot is a bald. If not, so what? Still a good good size raptor that may be a non typical Bald.(?)
J Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 8, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw some kind of Raptor circling several hundred feet above my yard this > afternoon. I pulled my camera off the tripod and did a handheld shot with my > 150-450 and 1.4X converter mounted — about 630 mm. Shutter speed was at > 1,000th. Turned focus manually to infinity and I think the camera locked on > as well. But the result is less than 20% of frame. I assumed it was a hawk, > but when I rendered it I could see if it’s no hawk i know. Matches up well to > bad eagle underside pics on the web. Fun stuff. > > https://www.photo.net/photo/18372981/bald-eagle > -- > 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.

