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DRwyoming

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Seeing all the fantastic posts on the Hummers thread I figured another popular area for wildlife photos is Birds in Flight. Anyone interested in sharing BIF photos?

I'll kick it off with this Great Egret captured this morning down by the Snake River. It was well past sunrise when I came across this guy fishing along the bank of a small side channel. The sun was getting pretty high in the sky but we've got a lot of smoke from Western forest fires which diffuses the light a bit (can't even see the Tetons from Jackson right now) so I thought I'd give it a go. I sure wish he'd flown towards me but I really liked the darker mountainside across the river as a background.

Nikon D5, 500mm PF @f/6.3 1/1250' ISO 500

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So what are folks capturing for Birds in Flight?
 
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Promapper said:
Here is a bird though not very glamorous makes for great bif practice as they can be plentiful in many of the countries town squares and parks.
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Great image with beautiful colors.

I've always thought the trick is to call them Rock Doves instead of Pigeons so folks don't reject them out of hand :)
 
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Not sure why I chose this as my first post in this thread, not the sharpest. At Palouse Falls watching the Red-tailed hawks diving from high above snagging mice and returning to the nest when I caught this one in the gorge displaying his name sake tail feathers.
*edit- added a wider view with D850 @ 29mm
Nikon D500
200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
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Osprey seem like they should be easy to get a decent photo but i have really struggled to capture a really good image. I'll get there someday. Here is one with a fish he grabbed out of the Frenchman Hills river. I will say he had quite a meal ready and tried hard but a Swainson's hawk left with the bass.
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Cinnamon Teal flyby in Central Washington
Nikon D500
TAMRON SP AF 150-600mm F5-6.3 VC USD A011N
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