Birds In Flight - Post Yours!

[RichardB]

Grey heron in less than favourable light.
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Impressive wingspan. Great shot.

 

[GSPEP]

 

[K9Kirk]

Especially with the whites that you don't want blown. Handsome bird though and a good shot.

Here's a Grey heron from yesterday. He came swooping in late afternoon.

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It looks like it was taken from the same place your first pic in this thread was taken. Would that place happen to be your 2nd floor window, looking down on the water? I love how you can see all the detail on the backside with the wings spread wide like that and the black water for a bg is splendid. What a great vantage point, wherever it is. Some of my best gator shots are from a bridge looking down on them in the murky, blacks of the river.

 

[K9Kirk]

Not the best shot, being at distance, but a reddish egret hunting alongside a red-breasted merganser. Worth a look at I figure since it shows one of their traits that you don't see often in pics of them.

205cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

It looks like it was taken from the same place your first pic in this thread was taken. Would that place happen to be your 2nd floor window, looking down on the water? I love how you can see all the detail on the backside with the wings spread wide like that and the black water for a bg is splendid. What a great vantage point, wherever it is. Some of my best gator shots are from a bridge looking down on them in the murky, blacks of the river.

Yes, taken from home. My apartment is on the 3d floor and that's not counting ground floor, so I guess you would call it the 4th floor? It's really nice when they fly by because I get to shoot them at eye level. But the heron in that shot is a bit of a balcony view and light was bad, robbing the bird of all colour. But the shot in the OP of the thread, yeah, that's a shot I am still very happy with. Great light!

Here's another shot that I took years ago that I am still fond of, also from the same window at sunrise with the heron forming an almost perfect semi-circle.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Not the best shot, being at distance, but a reddish egret hunting alongside a red-breasted merganser. Worth a look at I figure since it shows one of their traits that you don't see often in pics of them.

205cv-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

Very very nice, Kirk. The low angle is nice, as is that merganser!
Not all bird shots need to be about the bird filling the frame. I love shots like these because they show us the habitat and this habitat is attractive, the water, the beach, the low angle too. So from my point of view this is a great shot.

 

[sidknee]

common buzzard

 

[K9Kirk]

Yes, taken from home. My apartment is on the 3d floor and that's not counting ground floor, so I guess you would call it the 4th floor? It's really nice when they fly by because I get to shoot them at eye level. But the heron in that shot is a bit of a balcony view and light was bad, robbing the bird of all colour. But the shot in the OP of the thread, yeah, that's a shot I am still very happy with. Great light!

Here's another shot that I took years ago that I am still fond of, also from the same window at sunrise with the heron forming an almost perfect semi-circle.
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The light doesn't get much better than that, just beautiful. Did you thank the bird and throw him a big fish or a screaming child?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

common buzzard

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Excellent shot, Sid!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The light doesn't get much better than that, just beautiful. Did you thank the bird and throw him a big fish or a screaming child?

A screaming child? Now that’s an idea!

It’s nice when things work with you instead of against you, isn’t it?