Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Aquila audax - Captain's Flat.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Mar 2012 at 10:31:21 (UTC)

Reason: As I was leaving for a day's photography, I spotted a Diamond Firetail drinking from a puddle on the other side of my hire car. I managed to get my camera out without flushing it, but just as I had the camera pointing at it around the car. I waited in the car for quite a while before setting off. I was a little annoyed that I'd wasted valuable haze-free morning, but the delay turned out to be lucky - this eagle was waiting just outside the driveway, in a tree, where I was staying.
Articles in which this image appears: Wedge-tailed Eagle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

* Support. Good shot. Clegs (talk) 10:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

- Neutral. The beak didn't bug me at first, but is bugging me more and more. Clegs (talk) 08:32, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The beak is one solid blown highlight. Dusty777 (talk) 02:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Fixed, not that it made an appreciable difference. JJ Harrison (talk) 04:46, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support -- I like the bird but that beak is bothering me. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:03, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's another Australia picture. Too many Australia pictures on the front page. Dr. Morbius (talk) 18:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's not one of the criteria. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose That upshoot of the tree branch on the left-hand side spoils the photo for me -- crowds and draws my eye away from the subject. —Eustress ^talk 07:05, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:23, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]