Shaheen Falcon

[Sandipan Ghosh]

The Shaheen is a small and powerful-looking falcon with blackish upperparts, rufous underparts with fine, dark streaks, and white on the throat.
Location - Damodar Valley, Barddhaman, West Bengal
Date - 08/11/2016
Canon 600D + Sigma 150-600 mm
600 mm, 1/1000s, f/9, iso 500

[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Lovely image. Rich orange-brown abdomen makes Shaheen (Indian sub-species favouring hill forests) looking different from Peregrine. I am wondering how nice it is that you could find it here.
We have seen Peregrine in the Sundarbans. Krishnan has obeserved both are much of the same size. Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Great sighting. The vertical composition looks nice here. I think some loss of details due to the crop. Thanks for sharing.

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Lovely image. Rich orange-brown abdomen makes Shaheen (Indian sub-species favouring hill forests) looking different from Peregrine. I am wondering how nice it is that you could find it here.
We have seen Peregrine in the Sundarbans. Krishnan has obeserved both are much of the same size. Thanks for sharing. SaktiWild

It was one of my great experiences. I did not know that the sighting of Shaheen is so rare in our region in close proximity. Thanks for the comments sir......

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Great sighting. The vertical composition looks nice here. I think some loss of details due to the crop. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot Madam for your valuable composition....

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Looks like you had done lot of noise reduction. The eye contact is nice. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Shyamala Kumar]

Great eye contact.Beautiful eye cotact.

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Looks like you had done lot of noise reduction. The eye contact is nice. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Yes I have done noise reduction......

[Sandipan Ghosh]

Great eye contact.Beautiful eye cotact.

Thank you very much

[Joydip Mukherjee]

excellent capture ... good details and eye contact ... great shot .... thanks for sharing