Post your Birds in Flight

[Levina]

Let's keep them flying!!

Grey heron

 

[Levina]

Sedge warbler

 

[Levina]

Kestrel, eating on the fly.

 

[Levina]

House martin

 

[Levina]

Sedge warbler, shot at sunrise. Fast little birdies.

 

[Darren75]

I don’t know how you do it, Levina. These are amazing!

 

[Levina]

I don’t know how you do it, Levina. These are amazing!

Thanks, Darren!

 

[JohnPD]

I'm not sure if this counts as a bird in flight?

 

[Levina]

I'm not sure if this counts as a bird in flight?
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Works for me, John. Welcome to the forum!

 

[JohnPD]

Works for me, John. Welcome to the forum!

Thank you.

 

[Levina]

Cormorant

 

[Jack Dawe]

Puffin

 

[Jack Dawe]

House Martin

 

[RichardB]

Honestly, I don't know how you guys get these fast little buggers in flight. Amazing.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Honestly, I don't know how you guys get these fast little buggers in flight. Amazing.

I just got lucky. I'm usually useless at panning. The Puffin was on the Farne Islands where there are literally thousands of them to practise on.

 

[Levina]

I just got lucky. I'm usually useless at panning. The Puffin was on the Farne Islands where there are literally thousands of them to practise on.

Lucky with the puffins, maybe, but house martins are quick as lightning. Not so easy to shoot.

Must be so wonderful to visit the Farne Islands. I dreamed of going there.

 

[RichardB]

I just got lucky. I'm usually useless at panning. The Puffin was on the Farne Islands where there are literally thousands of them to practise on.

Lucky? Nah, skill, I say. I mean we have house martins here, right. They breed under roofs in old buildings. They fly by so fast that I'm like "was that a bird?"

 

[Jack Dawe]

Must be so wonderful to visit the Farne Islands. I dreamed of going there.

It was a truly memorable visit. The only trouble is that you only get a maximum of three hours on Inner Farne and it's never long enough. It's a bird photographer's paradise - at least it was before the bird flu hit it.

 

[Levina]

It was a truly memorable visit. The only trouble is that you only get a maximum of three hours on Inner Farne and it's never long enough. It's a bird photographer's paradise - at least it was before the bird flu hit it.

Oh gosh, bird flu? That can really decimate a bird population. Was it very bad?

 

[Jack Dawe]

Oh gosh, bird flu? That can really decimate a bird population. Was it very bad?

Yes, it was awful. Away from the Farnes, amongst other things, it virtually wiped out a colony of Roseate Terns and killed two-thirds of all the nesting Great Skuas in the country.