Three days after spotting the hawk near our house (see previous post), I was on my walk to Dolores Park and spotted the same hawk perched on a light pole at 22nd and Mission streets in San Francisco. (The same light pole that the bird was on December 12th)

I crossed the intersection to get a different angle on the bird.

That made the bird back-lit, so I crossed the street so the sun was at my back…

I zoomed to maximum to get the most detail on the bird…

There is always a choice when shooting with a zoom lens. Do you want to maximize detail as above, or do you want to plan for action, such as when a hawk with a really big wingspan takes off? In the following case, I wish I had been zoomed out a bit so I could have caught the take-off properly.

Ah, well, perhaps I will see the bird at the end of my walk.

And coming back from my hour-long walk, I did indeed spot the hawk flying down Mission Street, and it landed down the block on the top of the old Grand Theater marquee.

So I walked down to get some more shots.

Camera used: Sony RX10 Mk4
ISO 200, f/4, focal length 220mm (600mm equivalent)
handheld, some shots full frame, some cropped.

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