Nice behavior shot. I have never seen one doing so.
I love kestrels. Sadly I seem to be seeing less of them than say 8 years ago.Visiting friends in central Oregon near Bend, outside of town there are areas of farmland where one sees many predators: eagles, different hawks, and, in this case, an American kestrel whom I glimpsed taking off from her perch on telephone wires---
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There she goes---
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Up, up and away!
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That is a spectacular photo and even more impressive that you took that with an EPL7! Did you have the camera set up near the flower and use a remote app to trigger the shutter?
Beautiful series, Stu.
Thanks John. It was this morning's stroll along the Mullum Mullum Trail [ relevant only to Melb. residents! ] nothing for half an hour....and then the little winged folk started appearing and performing!Beautiful series, Stu.
Many thanks, Dan. The camera was hand-held (I tend to use high shutter speeds and not worry much about ISO). I sit close to my "garden" consisting of a few flowering plants and wait for a hummingbird or butterfly to come to the flowers (I find sitting down allows me to hold the camera steady better than standing). The hummingbird was about 10 ft (3 m) from me. For butterflies I usually sit about 3 ft (1 m, the close-focusing distance of my lens) from the flowers.That is a spectacular photo and even more impressive that you took that with an EPL7! Did you have the camera set up near the flower and use a remote app to trigger the shutter?