Common Hawk-Cuckoo

[Arpan Saha]

English Name - Common Hawk-Cuckoo
Bengali Name - Papiya
Scientific Name - Cuculus varius
Size - 34 cm
[Nikon D7000 + 300 f4]
Location - Piyali, Sunderbans, W.B.
Shot Taken on - Dec, 13

[NOTE - The Catch (Caterpillar)... :) ]

1/640 sec; f/5.6; ISO 640

almost uncropped; basic photoshop

[Rajan Kanagasabai]

Nice picture. Good you got it with the Caterpillar. The details seem soft (probably noise reduction). Beautiful head turn and nice eye contact.

Thanks for sharing

Rajan

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Like the eye contact and the prey in its beak. The bg looks nice too. Agree with Rajanji's comments. I am also still getting used to this lens (I also have the same combo D7k+300f4+1.4x tc). Thanks for sharing.

[Arpan Saha]

thanks for the reviews... yes noise reduction used... though i think the main reason is that I haven't used too much sharpening in ps... also, as it was a distant shot so decided against cropping...