bird photography : red-shouldered hawk
$caption = "Early-morning visits really pay off when heaed to Huntley Meadows. Though not the first bird-watchers to arrive that morning, John and Beth were there just after seven a.m. and found this fine hawk watching over a small bluebird-boxed clearing where normally several butterbums (Yellow-rumped Warblers) hang out. He posed for several photographs before spotting breakfast at the edge of the meadow. The funniest thing was how a dumb squirrel later scampered up the tree this hawk had perched in with his meal, nearly reaching the hawk's perch before noticing!";
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$photoSettings["location"] = "Huntley Meadows Park / Fairfax County, VA";
$photoSettings["lens"] = "Canon EF 300mm f4L IS with 1.4x Teleconverter";
$photoSettings["notes"] = "The light was poor for this early-morning photograph on an overcast day that brought several short showers, but a combination of the Better Beamer flash extender and some saturation applied in image processing yielded this fine photograph. John couldn't have hoped for a better background--look at that bokeh!"
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