ML274655021

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Observation details

We were looking at a large flock of common starling and house sparrow sitting on tall grasses and nearby fields. Suddenly the whole flock took to air. we noticed this falcon very late... after it passed us. It had a very slow gliding flight. my first reaction was white eye buzzard ..looking a the carpel ... but corrected myself to peregrine in the field ... the slow gliding flight and lack of active chase ... made me doubt my field it ... Posted on some social groups where it was id a juv laggar falcon. Though Laggar is not a common raptor for our region but there have been few scattered records. As recent as 1 week old record of a preched juv. laggar from the same location. It is possible that I had photographed the same bird. Habitat where this bird was seen: Rice fields (harvesting going on) on one side and Najafgarh drain (which was full of ducks and waders)on the other side .... minimal human disturbance in this zone

Technical information

Model

Canon EOS 7D

Lens

EF300mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x

ISO

320

Focal length

420 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/5.6

Shutter speed

1/1500 sec

Dimensions

1500 pixels x 1069 pixels

Original file size

567.81 KB