Common Buzzard

Common Buzzard - Buteo  Buteo - Musvåk

Eos 1D mk4 - Ef 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 IS USM at 400mm - 1/400s - f/7.1 - ISO 640  EV +2 1/3

Spotted two Common Buzzards when i was driving company car at “dayjob” today. After a nice day at the shooting range, job done and dinner with my family I went back to the location. Brought my camera this time and was hoping for some luck…… Waited about 40 minutes, spending time photographing dancing mosquitoes and Borgen Mill in low sunlight. Then....... Heard a "squiiiik" that could not be anything else than a bird of pray. A Buzzard landed in a Spurce about 100 meters away. My patience was yet again put to a test with a lot of branches between the motive and me..... Waited another 4 long minutes. Then the Buzzard flew past me :) The sun set fast, so I should have paid attention to my ISO setting at my camera. With a few steps higher ISO - the exposure would have been a bit faster. And my pictures would have become at bit more crispy. But...... This is definitely a location I will return to.

Dancing Mosquitos in low sunlight     

Borgen Mill in low sunlight - Borgen Mølle

Common Buzzard ver. #2 - Buteo  Buteo - Musvåk

Eos 1D mk4 - Ef 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 IS USM at 400mm - 1/400s - f/7.1 - ISO 640  EV +2 1/3