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.

  • Don PianoEnglish
    2•3 days ago

    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. :)

    • KevinFRKOPEnglish
      2•3 days ago

      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

      • KevinFRKOPEnglish
        2•3 days ago

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