Sunday, April 16, 2006

American Kestrel: Upper East Side 15-Apr

This male American Kestrel was seen around 11:30am this morning hunting from an antennae near my apartment.

Kestrels have been seen in the area, including perched on this antennae, over the past few years.

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Details:
• Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30
• Shutter speed: 1/400 sec | Aperture: f/5.6 | ISO: 80
• Focal length in 35mm film: 420mm
• Distance to subject: approx. 70 feet

The photo was taken handheld with image stabilization on.

Here is a compressed image (800 pixels wide) of the original 8 megapixel photo.


2 Comments:

yojimbot said...

sweet pic homie

Ben C. said...

Thanks!

Isn't it nice when they pose like that?

Did you take a look at the photo it was cropped from? The image above is from the 8mb image. Here's the original image compressed to 480kb.

See you around.