Windhover
Windhover
An alternative name for a kestrel, and definitely what this one was doing!
Reading, UK, Canon R6 + RF800mm, 1/2000s, F10, ISO1000, Exposure Bias +1 1/3
Must have knocked the dial as that should have been F9. For most of its hover, its head was in the shadow of its wing , making for less than perfect shots needing drastic post processing, e.g.
Weird name for a windfucker.
I'd be curious to see one of the shots with the head in the shade but less drastic postprocessing. I can imagine it looking actually kinda cool!
Otherwise: Amazing shots, as always. :)
Try this one - still messed with, but gives more of the shadows
Which, just cropped out of the camera's RAW format (suffering from the classic dark bird against white sky issue with auto-ISO) was
And not entirely to my surprise, Windhover is even in the Oxford English Dictionary!
... This picture makes me smile.