Your friendly, neighborhood predator.

[Uncle Wig]

Not the greatest photo - I don't like that distracting out-of-focus wire - but hey, it's the only hawk I was able to photograph this morning without my coffee going cold.

[Speedy]

Nice!

[space-time]

Cool. Shot this with your K-5? Which lens?

[Uncle Wig]

space-time wrote:
Cool. Shot this with your K-5? Which lens?

Yes. Sigma 50-500mm. 1/1000, ƒ/11, ISO 500, 500 mm.

[hal]

Really nice! You can clean up that wire easily in pshop, but it is distracting.

I LOVE sharp pics - I'm sure you can see fine, fine details in the original pic on a big screen

[Speedy]

What wire? I see the remnants of a contrail or something behind the wire.

[tenders]

I think the contrast between the talons and the wire, and the shadows of the talons on the wire, add a lot to the picture.

[freeradical]

Two wires and a messenger cable. :-)

A little bit of motion blur due to shooting at 500 mm perhaps? Did the bird move and get the cables vibrating?

[Wags]

Very cool, doesn't look all that friendly.

[Racer X]

looks diligent and perhaps thoughtful to me.