Darwin
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Thank you. Yes, it is an Eider. It's quite unexpected, a pair has been hanging around near me in the northeast.
Birds in Flight -- Share your BIF Images
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Out for a walk and came across this Great Blue Heron fishing in this algae covered pond. Saw the tell tale lean into the wind and caught this shot as he launched into flight.
Nikon D500, 500mm PF, f/5.6, 1/2500", ISO 360
Nikon D500, 500mm PF, f/5.6, 1/2500", ISO 360
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Now that's just good shooting. Awesome shot of a GBH and a nice clean BG. Really well done.
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Thanks, much appreciated.
Gotta give a lot of credit to the D500 in Group AF Area Mode. It nailed every shot until the GBH ducked down below some grass which the AF system latched onto. Here's a frame 13 shots later that I liked but all the shots in that sequence held the eye sharp.
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Flock shots are always a lottery.
Banded Stilts floating and standing, then taking off. I've cropped that a bit to get a pattern effect.
Ocean's edge at Avalon, Australia.
They're amazing birds. They can be heavy with eggs and then fly hundreds of kms to ephemeral inland salt lakes to lay them in a scrape in the sand. It isn't known how they know when the lakes have filled.
Banded Stilts floating and standing, then taking off. I've cropped that a bit to get a pattern effect.
Ocean's edge at Avalon, Australia.
They're amazing birds. They can be heavy with eggs and then fly hundreds of kms to ephemeral inland salt lakes to lay them in a scrape in the sand. It isn't known how they know when the lakes have filled.
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They are, but your winning number came up with that image. Nicely done!
Thanks
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Whitewater Draw, McNeal, AZ - Cattle Egret
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Bank swallow flying away from its nest.
Set up near a sand bank that was being used as nesting by these little speed demons. It took a bit of time and a lot of misses; but I eventually got some ok'ish flight shots. This is my favourite.
D500, 500f4, f/4, 1/4000, iso 560.
Bank swallow by Jochen Maes
Set up near a sand bank that was being used as nesting by these little speed demons. It took a bit of time and a lot of misses; but I eventually got some ok'ish flight shots. This is my favourite.
D500, 500f4, f/4, 1/4000, iso 560.
Bank swallow by Jochen Maes
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Great Shot!Bank swallow flying away from its nest.
Set up near a sand bank that was being used as nesting by these little speed demons. It took a bit of time and a lot of misses; but I eventually got some ok'ish flight shots. This is my favourite.
D500, 500f4, f/4, 1/4000, iso 560.
They are SO difficult to shoot because of their need to change direction SO often.
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Great Shot!
Thanks Ralph.
Tell me about it. I had a memory card full of sharp images of an empty bank of sand
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Pacific Gull, immature.
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Just an Osprey against blue sky which isn't my favorite kind of shot but the interesting thing is that this was captured with my Z6 II with the 500 PF plus TC-20e iii mounted up. I'm amazed at what the mirrorless camera could do in terms of AF tracking with a lens plus TC combo that's f/11 wide open and how well the 2x TC paired up with the 500mm PF in terms of sharpness and contrast. Admittedly this is a pretty high contrast shooting situation in mid day light but I'd pretty much given up on Nikon's 2x teleconverters and a friend suggested I give this combo a try. Gotta say it's not half bad if you've got the light to shoot at f/11.
Nikon Z6II, 500mm PF + TC-20e iii (1000mm), f/11, 1/3200", ISO 2500
Nikon Z6II, 500mm PF + TC-20e iii (1000mm), f/11, 1/3200", ISO 2500
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And it makes a pretty compact and portable 1000mm rig.
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Very nice picture
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A Black Kite obligingly did two circuits in front of me at this Ramsar-listed wetland at Werribee Australia.
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