Birds Birds in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

Very good, Ralph!
 
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I have a 6400 and made the mistake of renting an a9ii for the weekend. This one of the photos, California Brown Pelican going for a landing.
And now I just bought an a9. It got me at bursts with no blackouts. Truly awesome camera!
 
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Another California Brown Pelican at La Jolla Cove, CA. I'm really enjoying the a9 + 200-600 combo.
 
Little Wattlebird. Endemic to Tasmania.

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I thought I knew what the endemic words meant and it was as I thought and this brings me to this.
The Little Wattlebird can and is also found on mainland Australia as well as Tassie.
I just thought that you should know this. But still is a good shot.
 
Thanks you are quite right, I confused it with the yellow wattlebird of Tasmania.
I thought I knew what the endemic words meant and it was as I thought and this brings me to this.
The Little Wattlebird can and is also found on mainland Australia as well as Tassie.
I just thought that you should know this. But still is a good shot.
 
Thanks you are quite right, I confused it with the yellow wattlebird of Tasmania.
All good and the Yellow one is one I would love to get one day. Been to Tassie once but never seen it then.
So I would love to have a return trip to find a few more there like the cute 40 Spotted Pardalote.
 
All good and the Yellow one is one I would love to get one day. Been to Tassie once but never seen it then.
So I would love to have a return trip to find a few more there like the cute 40 Spotted Pardalote.
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Here's a YWB to go on with until you get down to Tassie. There's no shortage of them here. The 40 spots are a different kettle of fish/birds!
 
My goal this winter is to get some images of short eared owls that I am content with. I am stunned by the tracking ability of the A1, and the weakest link is definitely me. The other thing I note is that the A1 has far, far better noise performance than my A7R4, which it replaced.
 

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Spent a morning at https://raptorrescueplett.co.za being educated about the work they do. They receive sick and injured birds, try to rehabilitate as many as possible back into the wild (50-80% success rate), but some cannot be released again and become permanent residents. Some of the permanent residents are used to give flying displays.

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beautiful beasts
 
3 Brown pelicans in flight in the glow of the sunset.
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Short Eared Owl Pleased with the outcome considering 1/500th it kind of worked for the first few images of take of,although once in full flight everything went pear shaped ,love the motion in the wings with a steely sharp face.
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Great photo and as you say the movement in the wing tips gives life to the photo!
 
You have the light, the color, the composition and the subject. That's pretty good. Pick out a stuffed animal off the top shelf. ;o)
 
Short Eared Owl quatering the marshes decent sunangle for a change ,school boy error on my part i had my cam in crop mode ,i had been taking some video in crop and fogot to switchback which makes life easier on one term post processing but ,makes keeping subject in view finder less easy,i am sure i would of had more keepers otherwise especially when closer .
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A7 IV with 200-600 in crop sensor mode (900mm) - handheld @ 1/1600, F6.3, ISO 1600
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Some Marsh Harrier action yet again had throw a lot away due to heat haze and polloution from the marshes ,
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Razorbill and a puffin. The contrast on razorbills are very tricky as they are bright white and essentially black :)

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A few BIFs (sort of) from Gambia

Pink backed pelicans (?), western osprey, white throated bee-eater (diving into our swimming pool), pied kingfisher (ditto) and yellow billed kite.

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After many attempts to get the On1 photo raw 2022 to run at a decent speed I tried out the sky replacement option, (different images taken same day) any good or bad points?
Thankyou, Russ.
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