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Wedged Tail Eagle Flew In Front of Our Car in Queensland

Wedged Tail Eagle Flew In Front of Our Car in Queensland

Wedged Tailed Eagles are birds of prey. They feed a lot on road kill - usually kangaroos and other animals which have been hit by cars and trucks. This bird fl...
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Wedged Tailed Eagles are birds of prey. They feed a lot on road kill - usually kangaroos and other animals which have been hit by cars and trucks. This bird flew directly in the front of our car - we were extremely lucky. I was very pleased though to capture this bird even though we swerved to miss him.
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Canon EOS 700D

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 100 Shutter 1/320 Focal Length 170/1

upload_date

Sep, 2015

Views

230

Likes

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Awards

Absolute Masterpiece

Peer Award

Top Choice

Magnificent Capture

Outstanding Creativity

Superior Skill

All Star

Superb Composition

wonderful capture and edit Chris

Thank you Kazza.

PRO+

Superbly done, Chris

Thank you so much Brian. I found a lot of my photos on an external hard drive, that I forgot I had. Yippee Yahooo!!

Platinum

Great job of panning Chris. How big was it.

Thank you so much Michaeltillman. He was massive - with wings spread, they would have been the size of a windscreen on our car. My first reasonable attempt at catching these magnificent birds.