{"id":995,"date":"2007-11-11T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/995"},"modified":"2013-11-23T20:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T20:59:56","slug":"sparrowhawk-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/sparrowhawk-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Regular visitors to the blog will no doubt be aware of my attempts to photograph birds of prey. It's generally a very hit and miss<\/a> affair. Today I was out with the long lens photographing the seagulls which were swooping low over the gardens. <\/p>\n

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While I was scanning the gardens to see where I could get the best angle, I noticed that a sparrowhawk had come in low to investigate. We seem to be on a regular circuit. Last week it briefly swooped down to our pond, and it glides overhead frequently. The camera was set up for gulls which meant the sparrowhawk shots were underexposed. For dark subjects against a bright background (i.e. a bird – other than a gull – against the sky) I tend to compensate for the contrast by setting a slight overexposure. I didn't have the foresight to change the settings when I saw the hawk, but with a bit post-processing I got some reasonable results. <\/p>\n

I've added several more shots in the November Birds<\/a> gallery, but here are a couple as a taster. <\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i>
More seagull shots<\/a> from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,989],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-sparrowhawk","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t