An alternative name for a kestrel, and definitely what this one was doing!

Reading, UK, Canon R6 + RF800mm, 1/2000s, F10, ISO1000, Exposure Bias +1 1/3

Must have knocked the dial as that should have been F9. For most of its hover, its head was in the shadow of its wing , making for less than perfect shots needing drastic post processing, e.g.

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Weird name for a windfucker.

I’d be curious to see one of the shots with the head in the shade but less drastic postprocessing. I can imagine it looking actually kinda cool!

Otherwise: Amazing shots, as always. :)

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Try this one - still messed with, but gives more of the shadows

Which, just cropped out of the camera’s RAW format (suffering from the classic dark bird against white sky issue with auto-ISO) was

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And not entirely to my surprise, Windhover is even in the Oxford English Dictionary!

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… This picture makes me smile.

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