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Common kestrel on a windmill (lemmy.world)
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Netherlands, June

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The cutest killing machine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the way you've shown the context in one photo, the bird in the other. Is that just digital zoom or two photos and an optical zoom?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks. It's optical zoom all the way out from 600mm to 150mm. I was too lazy to walk back to get the entire windmill in shot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thanks - thought you'd have to have a huge pixel count otherwise.

Anyway, hoping to walk to a new spot when photoing birds, and not expecting it to flow off, is a mug's game :)