Black Kite with fish

[Atul Sinai]

Black kite had picked up the fish from the water surface. The catch was quite big and its claws were not able to hold on to it. Moving ahead he dropped the catch.

Location: River Mula, Pune

Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: Canon 400mm f5.6
Exposure: Manual
Focus: Auto
Metering: Manual
Shutter Speed: 1/1600
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 400mm
cropped by 35%

[Sucheth Lingachar]

Beautiful catch... if u would have clicked fraction of second late you would have got the green background... but saying is easy but in the field its difficult to get the action shots.... TFS

Sucheth S L

[Mrudul Godbole]

Wow surely a big catch. Nice flight pose and eye contact. I would have liked more details in the eye. Is it due to the crop? Is the AF point on the fish? Thanks for sharing.

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image Atul. The black kite has adapted itself to cities extremely well. Nice to see it with a fish. Agree with Mrudul on the focal point. Thanks for sharing.

[Dr Ajay Kumar Singh]

gr8! capture Atul. Thanks for sharing

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice one Atul ....big catch. was this a dead fish ?

TFS
Roopak