David Element
Wildlife Photography and Digital Video Images
___________________________________________________________ Birds 113 – Eurasian Sparrowhawks
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
EURASIAN
SPARROWHAWK Accipiter nisus (m)
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This splendid male Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus was photographed preening himself in a London
park not much more than 20 feet away from the photographer, a quite
exceptionally close range for such a shy and elusive (albeit common) subject. When the Sparrowhawk landed the
photographer had two extension rings sandwiched between his 400mm lens and the camera
body in order to obtain extreme close-ups of small birds but this approach gave
a limited distance range and he couldn't focus on the Sparrowhawk as it was just
too far away. His first task was to remove these rings as quickly as he
could without disturbing the hawk and he initially had to hold them with his
little finger whilst taking the first part of the sequence until he could slip
them into a pocket. He was amazed that he was able to do this and also
later on to be able to remove a video camera from his bag in full view of a
bird with far better eyesight than his own! It was fortunate that the sun stayed
out as quite a lot of cloud had been obscuring it for much of the afternoon,
that there was no vegetation in the way and that there were no human
disturbances for 15 minutes at a normally very well populated location until
another birdwatcher approached and inadvertently scared the hawk away.
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During
this period some moving images were also captured and these may be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PY_exYPIhI and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmckhr41USM. A very lucky once-in-a-lifetime capture!
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