In my previous post I mentioned that I thought the hawk in the bush was a Cooper's hawk. I was wrong it is a Sharp Shinned Hawk. The first shot below was taken the day before yesterday and he hid behind the foliage, so after he left I did a bit of trimming and got some shots yesterday as clouds started moving in. On a couple of the shots I had to open the aperture due to the dimmer light which limited the depth of field (you can actually notice the difference in his pupil dilation in the shots from yesterday and the day before when the sun was out). Shortly before I got these shots I saw him swoop in grab a humming bird and take off with it (I assume that the blood on his talons was from his grab and go lunch). I also got a few shots of the other birds that immediately left when he came by. The shots of the other birds still had some sunlight as the clouds where just starting to move in at that point. All these shots where taken a 1000mm using a canon 500mm lens with a 2x canon teleconverter (note: the shots of the other birds where also cropped some). The first shot was taken on 1/21/21 around 3:10 PM. Subsequent shots where taken on 1/22/21, the non-hawk shots where taken between 1:00 and 1:40 PM, the hawk shots where taken around 2:30PM . All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.

In my previous post I mentioned that I thought the hawk in the bush was a Cooper's hawk. I was wrong it is a Sharp Shinned Hawk. The first shot below was taken the day before yesterday and he hid behind the foliage, so after he left I did a bit of trimming and got some shots yesterday as clouds started moving in. On a couple of the shots I had to open the aperture due to the dimmer light which limited the depth of field (you can actually notice the difference in his pupil dilation in the shots from yesterday and the day before when the sun was out). Shortly before I got these shots I saw him swoop in grab a humming bird and take off with it (I assume that the blood on his talons was from his grab and go lunch). I also got a few shots of the other birds that immediately left when he came by. The shots of the other birds still had some sunlight as the clouds where just starting to move in at that point. All these shots where taken a 1000mm using a canon 500mm lens with a 2x canon teleconverter (note: the shots of the other birds where also cropped some). The first shot was taken on 1/21/21 around 3:10 PM. Subsequent shots where taken on 1/22/21, the non-hawk shots where taken between 1:00 and 1:40 PM, the hawk shots where taken around 2:30PM . All questions comments and suggestions are welcome.