Had a visitor while shooting traffic....

[RodPad]

OMG! That is Awesome!
He wasn't chasing your tail feathers, must have been looking at himself from the lens.

Rod..

 

[Harleydude]

It is indeed a Cooper's hawk, and not a falcon or a red-tailed hawk.
The tail feathers give it away.

Yep.

Great capture!

Thanx. I wish I could take some kind of credit. But honestly, it was pure luck that he just happened to fly through my FOV.

What was the video frame rate?

30 fps.

30fps results in a frame grab that is twice the size of a 60fps frame grab because the recording bit rate is fixed.

Gotcha. I always record "forensic" video @ 30 fps.

Here is a 5 year old shot from my P4P, from back in the day.
I was flying backwards, while the sea gull was chatting up the P4P! LOL!
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Nice.

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