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Mouse Bomb

Mouse Bomb

This hawk came in for a landing and dropped a mouse on the fence post.

This hawk came in for a landing and dropped a mouse on the fence post.
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NIKON D500

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Aperture f/10 ISO 800 Shutter 1/2000 Focal Length 4500/10

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upload_date

Sep, 2018

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366

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+106

Awards

Peer Award

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Absolute Masterpiece

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Magnificent Capture

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Great capture

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What a capture - right on time!

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Lol . . . talk about timing. . . just curious: did the hawk retrieve his mouse dinner?

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Perfect place, perfect time. Totally awesome capture

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Great timing and capture. Did the Hawk retrieve his dinner?

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yes it did.. too good to leave on the fence...

This is a once in a lifetime capture. Glad you were there.

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Wow Mark. Great capture.

WOW...Awesome frozen moment in time!!

Can't believe you were actually able to capture that! (Where the heck was I???)

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Awesome

WOW WOW WOW !! :)

Whoa. You sure do find some great action and photograph it well!

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