JJ..... very nice Raptor encounter .... I think YOU were lucky and the Coot was unlucky! Sometimes with the 500 your subject can come unexpectedly too close ..... you need another camera body with a shorter lens on a Black Rapid strap for just such events[]


I had a similar experience on some Brown Pelicans in Florida when I rented a 500mm, even with the 1.3 crop factor some of them came too close ....





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