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Common kestrel on a windmill (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by adjjjj@lemmy.world to c/birding@lemmy.world

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Netherlands, June

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[–] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 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?

[–] adjjjj@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months 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.

[–] KevinFRK@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months 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 :)