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Thank you all for your kindly comments.
@MedicinMan404 - yes it is an European Kestrel
@birdied:
It was a great luck, to come close to the bird with the car, and that the bird did not fly away, when I stopped. So I had the time to prepare my camera with the "long rifle" and then I could shoot through the opend window free hand. The pictures are only cropped a few, and free hand I was able to follow the bird when it started. The setup was not pro capture mode, but I used the high speed electronic shutter at 16 picts/s and C-AF and aktivated 9 fields in the middle. You see it at the bird yet sitting on the branch: one little branch is still in front of the birds head, so the branch is sharp, but not the birds head. But when the bird take off, C-AF worked perfectly, keeping the head sharp.
The interesting fact with these shots is that they so are a follow up of 62,5 milliseconds between each shot, and so one can imagine how fast the action of the birds wings are. Only such a high speed camera can achieve this.
Horst
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