Birds in Flight -- Share your BIF Images

[Harry.G]

Had a Eastern Great Egret fly toward me and turn in front of me this arvo, was a bit late and the light was low. Series with the D850 & 400/2.8 wide open @1/2000 ISO 2-2.5k
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Beautiful capture especially the last three images

 

[JG_PNS]

Coming in for a landing!

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[JG_PNS]

Cruising over the Boynton Inlet...

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[William (Bill) Anderson]

Double-crested Cormorants; Nikon D5 + 800mm f5.6e

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[ALinLA]

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?

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?
Mobile Bay Fishermen

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[DRwyoming]

I was up in BC looking for Snowy Owls when this Short Eared Owl came buzzing by to see what I was up to out on the snowy tidewater flats.

Nikon D2X, 600mm f/4 @f/4, 1/320", ISO 200

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[jcgamble]

Swallow-tailed Kite

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[Viathelens]

Osprey, Calaveras County, CA and Eagle, Klamath Falls, OR

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[Viathelens]

Egret, Florida.

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[Viathelens]

Sandhill Cranes, New Mexico.

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[bajadreamer]

BIF. Again, like hummers, great frustration at times. Many more culls than keepers.

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[Gongster]

A Chough in the Atlas Mountains

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[bajadreamer]

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What a cool looking bird!

 

[Gongster]

You may have seen this before but I thought it could into the BIF thread, my cock Nightjar photo.

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[Howard5252]

Let's Face It - Pelicans are easy. Here are three taken in Loreto Mexico.

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[Howard5252]

Sandhill Cranes, New Mexico.

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[Gongster]

Let's Face It - Pelicans are easy. Here are three taken in Loreto Mexico. View attachment 3907View attachment 3908View attachment 3909

Howard, they're not easy to take if you live in England! I'd like to have the chance.

 

[Howard5252]

Egret, Florida.

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Did you know ......??? Those joints about halfway up the bird's legs are NOT its knees; it's the bird's ankles !! The knees are somewhere up under the body feathers.

 

[Howard5252]

Howard, they're not easy to take if you live in England! I'd like to have the chance.

No Pelicans in England! Sorry. My Pelican shots were taken in Loreto Mexico. I don't live in Loreto, I was there while on a whale watching trip. Perhaps when the Pandemic is over, a trip will be in your future. They do make good subjects for novices to the sport of photographing BIF.

 

[Larry Shuman]

Here is one shot with a D5 and 600mm F:4 G VR

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[Deleted member 115]

Let's Face It - Pelicans are easy. Here are three taken in Loreto Mexico. View attachment 3907View attachment 3908View attachment 3909

You just make it look easy.

 

[Venkatesh VT]

Gray heron , Hyderbad@India

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[agrumpybirdphotographer]

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Get Knotted

A large flock of Red Knot on passage up the North West Of England coast.

 

[agrumpybirdphotographer]

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Look I’m A Starr

Razorbill on cliff top landing approach.

 

[agrumpybirdphotographer]

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Look Out Incoming

Collared Dove Preparing To Land