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Red-tail Hawk with Snake

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Posted by Sandy Steinman on November 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM
This is a Red-tail Hawk with a Garter Snake that I photographed at Sacramento Wildlife Refuge last weekend. I felt quite lucky to get this shot. It was on the driving loop, where you are not allowed out of the car. It was shot standing up through an open moonroof handheld and leaning on roof of my Forester. The Hawk's attention was on the snake so we were able to get fairly close.

Canon EOS 60D
18 to 270mm set at 246mm
Aperture Priority
Partial Metering
1/250 sec. at f 7.1
iso 400
partial crop off top and right side
processed in lightroom and photoshop

see photo below. I obviously did something wrong on the photo upload.
Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on November 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Sounds like a great shot! but where is it? :smile:
Sandy R
Posted by Sandy Steinman on November 22, 2012 at 6:16 PM
Hopefully I got it right this time.
Posted by Harley Goldman on November 26, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Very cool! Thanks for posting this, Sandy.
Posted by SandyRichardsBrown on November 28, 2012 at 12:35 AM
Terrific image!
Sandy R
Posted by Rudy Ruberti on November 28, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Great shot! The hawk looks very determined to have lunch.