Common Cuckoo/Kabini#1

[Praveen Siddannavar]

This guy cooperated well with us for good 10 mins, so I had to the time to connect TC, I have made some vertical shots that I will share later.


Camera - Canon EOS 1D Mark IV, 500mm + 1.4x TC

Av 8
Tv 1/250
ISO 400
EC - 0.3 step
Focal length 700mm
Cropped
Bean Bag Support
Date and Time : 28th Jan'12 @ 5.05pm

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Lovely yellow eyes. Nice Image. You could have cropped a bit from the left I feel, would have given it a better feel.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Beautiful bird. The eye has come out well, and this is a nice image. I would prefer to place the bird more into the frame, to the left so that there is not so much open space.

tfs

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice shot. Agree about the space. This composition would have worked very well if there were a little more head turn from the bird. Look fwd to the verticals.
TFS

[Atul Sinai]

Beautiful image Praveen. I would have preferred the branch to come out from bottom left corner, not sure if you can maintain the aspect ratio if you go for such crop.

Thanks for sharing.

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image.Nice eye contact. Common hawk cuckoo,Indian cuckoo,Asian koel having different calls are found in this part of the country. Common cuckoo has another call oft -repeated "cuck-oo-oo".Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

P.S.:
This is a Common Hawk-Cukcoo(Hierococcyx varius) not Common Cuckoo(Cuculus canorus).Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild