Red-shouldered Hawk, Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Palm Coast FL

I was taking a scenic shot of the shadows under the great oaks at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park in Florida when something big flew across my view and up into a tree behind me. Hawk! I spun, changing modes from Landscape to my custom bird and wildlife mode on the camera’s control dial as I moved, and got off two shots before the bird moved on. This shot, and one showing the birds tail-feathers as it left the frame. 🙂 That is the wonder of today’s superzoom cameras. From 24mm wide angle scenic to 2000mm super-telephoto bird shot in less than a second. And a camera like the Nikon P900 does both well. That is way they are so much fun!

P900 in custom bird and wildlife mode (full zoom, 2000mm equivalent field of view, standard manual spot auto focus, standard Program with -1/3 EV exposure compensation, etc.). 1/125th @ ISO 400 @ f6.5. Processed in Lightroom.