robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I looked out the back door and noticed the birds were all gone. Looked at the bird bath and saw the reason. The Hawk moved around the yard a bit and at one point the Hawk was on the retaining wall about 20' from one of the Humming Bird feeders and... Well let's just say this little guy didn't care much. After all the hummer is small, fast, maneuverable, and has plenty of stuff to dodge behind. There was also one young/dumb squirrel under the playhouse of the swing set. Good thing for the squirrel the hawk was busy eyeballing me to see what that big white and black thing I pointed at him was.
Cloudy day (light rain just before dawn) so dim rather flat light.
80D, 100-400L + 1.4x and the ISO was up around 1250 to 1600 for the series of frames I took.

There was stuff to eat here just a minute ago!?!?

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The triangle blur in lower left is the Hawk - But someone isn't impressed much.

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vonzip Loc: cape cod

Nice shot of the hawk. Boy the grain really pops out on the second photo with the high iso. vz

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks Yes the 80D is supposed to handle high ISO better than the 7DII that I had. But it doesn't. I may drive over to the Canon service center and have them check it over. (25 min drive) I tried an experiment with the two bodies on the same settings (spot meter) and using the same lens my 5DIV gave me an ISO 640 while the 80D read 1200 for the same subject. It does not compute.

vonzip Loc: cape cod

Good luck. vz

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks

Sirius_one Loc: S.F. Bay Area

The shot of the hawk is excellent and super sharp.

Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia

Beautiful hawk image, Robert!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks a lot,

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

thanks very much