male Hen Harrier

still pointing the new 300 Canon at hopelessly distant birds but its resolving capacity with the 2x converter seems to be pretty damned good; I have included a full frame shot of one of the images resized to 1400 pixels and the cropped version; all Canon 1D4 and 300 2.8 II with 2x Mark3 converter, 1250 sec at 5.6 800 ISO hand held -- serious testing still need to be done

What a stunning bird this is -- anyone who could kill such a bird surely has no place on this planet