Birds in Flight -- Share your BIF Images

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Harris’s Hawk in my neighbor’s yard this morning
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I have way too many Red-tailed Hawk in flight photos, but this is one of my favorites. Taken near peak foliage in Western Pennsylvania.
D7500 + Tokina 300mm F/4 + 1.4 TC.
1/2000 F/5.6 ISO 400 420mm

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Thank you all for the compliments and likes. This is a Red Kite photographed above the South Downs in West Sussex. It was taken on my first outing with a new 500PF and there is a lesson here that relates to other posts. The lens came with a 'free' UV filter and I was not happy with the IQ compared with two other 500PFs I had hired. As with all my long lenses I had it calibrated by an expert company. With the filter an adjustment of -12 was required and I was advised to replace it with a Breakthrough filter after which virtually no adjustment was necessary.
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Just uploaded a batch of images from a week out on the Washington coast, captured quite a few shots of flying gulls as they're great practice for tracking BIF. I liked the look of this low flying shot with the reflections off the shallow water.

D850, 500mm PF, f/5.6, 1/1250", ISO 110
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DRwyoming said:
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



So what are folks capturing for Birds in Flight?
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Hi all.

Here is a Snowy Egret at Ballona Creek in Playa Del Rey, California. I liked the golden reflections in the water from the surrounding vegetation.

Nikon D2x and 200-400 f/4 at 400mm. f/4, 1/5000 sec, iso 400.

JIM

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