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A Moment

A Moment

Just a quickly captured moment as this sparrow feeds the newly fledged youngster in the garden hedge. The foreground leaves are more of a distraction than a com...
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Just a quickly captured moment as this sparrow feeds the newly fledged youngster in the garden hedge. The foreground leaves are more of a distraction than a component of the intimacy, but it was taken without any real planning.
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II

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Aperture f/7.1 ISO 400 Shutter 1/2000 Focal Length 500/1

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Aug, 2018

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