Square-tailed Kite chicks feeding

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Windhover
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Square-tailed Kite chicks feeding

Another shot of the same pair of young from 2008. My mate let me borrow an 800mm Canon lens that costs as much as a house deposit so I whacked my Canon 2x converter on it. I was 37m from the nest and this is taken at 1,600mm focal length, with the camera's crop sensor making it the same field of view as a lens of (1,600 x 1.6) 2,560mm. So very long. :-) This is almost a full frame image. Note both chicks are swallowing small nestlings here. :-(

Larger here:
http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/5363-1/Square-tailed-Kite_7635.jpg

Windhover
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Sorry, small image here:

Birdgirl2009
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Beautiful sharp photos from such a distance. I can well imagine the price after seeing what the 500 and 600 mm lenses cost. You are very lucky he was willing to share!

Owen1
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don't know how you managed such good shots Akos. Well done and nice BoP's too.

Cheers, Owen.

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