Constricted View

Not a good picture, but it shows the hawk's banded tail. It also shows the constraints I was working within.

I was heading for the post office this afternoon to check our mail when I looked out the window and found this bird looking back at me. So I grabbed a camera--my V1, as it happens--and shot a few pix. Since the 10-30 mm lens is obviously inadequate, I promptly switched to the 30-110.

The view demonstrates the only available shooting angle. Besides the limited perspective, I was shooting through a screen and a south-facing, double-paned, window that was reflecting the sun in inconvenient ways. None of the V1 photos were really satisfactory--with the 10-30 mm lens, we got this view; with the 30-110, the window screen interfered with the AF mechanism.