Birds Birds in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

spudhead · Jul 23, 2023

Egyptian goose very weird these a flat white sky does not help either

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spudhead · Jul 23, 2023

skylark tiny but here it is

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Uncle Kevriano · Jul 23, 2023

Weird geese, and they will take over our wetlands in years to come, because they breed very easily. I do prefer them to Canada Geese though.

Nice Lark!

GvilleRick · Jul 28, 2023

I drove about an hour this afternoon to see a new bird for me, a Swallow-Tailed Kite. There were as many as six at a time and they made several loops right over us.

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Uncle Kevriano · Jul 28, 2023

Fantastic Rick. Awesome bird.

RogerSmith · Jul 28, 2023

Fantastic, I was on the lookout for them across the deep south last week but no luck. Enjoyed seeing the Mississippi kites though.

LeDave · Jul 29, 2023

Caught this bad boy flying over Lake Superior the other day in a short vacation in Duluth, MN

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spudhead · Jul 30, 2023

Another kestrel

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spudhead · Jul 30, 2023

heron from a while ago

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MeowZzz · Aug 6, 2023

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Anyone know what's up with its leg?

Mike Renny · Aug 6, 2023

Fulmar photographed at Skokholm Island off the Pembrokeshire coast - an effortless glider.

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Mike Renny · Aug 6, 2023

Oystercatcher photographed at Skokholm Island off the Pembrokeshire coast

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Mike Renny · Aug 6, 2023

Great black-backed gull photographed off Stackpole Head in Pembrokeshire

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spudhead · Aug 9, 2023

Two sightings of a kestrel Sunday grabbed this in a flat white sky at some distance

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Uncle Kevriano · Aug 17, 2023

Incoming Kittiwake on Lowestoft Pier today

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RogerSmith · Aug 28, 2023

Brown pelican, La Jolla CA

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evacguy · Aug 31, 2023

Guys, I know this is a crap image, but can anyone tell me what type of bird this is? It was flying really high, too high for the 70-200mm to do it justice, but I was wondering what it was. I captured this guy while in the New Forest, I think it's my first bird of prey in flight! I think I'm going to need a bigger boat - I mean lens!

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spudhead · Aug 31, 2023

evacguy said:
Guys, I know this is a crap image, but can anyone tell me what type of bird this is? It was flying really high, too high for the 70-200mm to do it justice, but I was wondering what it was. I captured this guy while in the New Forest, I think it's my first bird of prey in flight! I think I'm going to need a bigger boat - I mean lens!

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Buzzard Ed these always seem to be so high up even with 200-600 and 1.4 I rarely get much luck, it is what it is at least you have got something

evacguy · Aug 31, 2023

spudhead said:
Buzzard Ed these always seem to be so high up even with 200-600 and 1.4 I rarely get much luck, it is what it is at least you have got something

Many thanks Gary, he was a big boy.

spudhead · Sep 1, 2023

Brownie said:
It's a hawk over here Ed. In the old world they call them buzzards. Over here, they're hawks. Here we call vultures 'buzzards', colloquially.

buzzard Tim he is one I took earlier this year

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iamdlewis · Sep 1, 2023

Brownie said:
It's a hawk over here Ed. In the old world they call them buzzards. Over here, they're hawks. Here we call vultures 'buzzards', colloquially.

It is a hawk over there too but that type is called "Common Buzzard"

spudhead · Sep 1, 2023

iamdlewis said:
It is a hawk over there too but that type is called "Common Buzzard"

Its strange this bird naming thing, it is a wonder they ever get a kill because I only ever see them flying really high

Uncle Kevriano · Sep 1, 2023

spudhead said:
Its strange this bird naming thing, it is a wonder they ever get a kill because I only ever see them flying really high

They are scavenger birds Gary, so don't hunt per se. They will, and I've seen them take small lizards, but generally they will feed on carcasses of rabbits, hares etc. They certainly do well enough, they are the most populous bird of prey in the UK.

spudhead · Sep 1, 2023

Kevriano said:
They are scavenger birds Gary, so don't hunt per se. They will, and I've seen them take small lizards, but generally they will feed on carcasses of rabbits, hares etc. They certainly do well enough, they are the most populous bird of prey in the UK.

I often see them in dog fights with ravens and again they are up on thermals almost too high to see clearly

Uncle Kevriano · Sep 1, 2023

spudhead said:
I often see them in dog fights with ravens and again they are up on thermals almost too high to see clearly

Yep, all corvids will chase them off, as they will take young from a nest, as will corvids though, so a weird dichotomy!

spudhead · Sep 10, 2023

A couple of overdue edits

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iamdlewis · Sep 10, 2023

spudhead said:
Its strange this bird naming thing,

The bird naming committee seems to have good days and then the ones in which they seem to conduct after a party. For example the American Red Start has no red but it does have orange or the Ring Neck Duck which has a dark brown ring on its black neck which seems ok for naming the duck except it has a white ring around its black and grey bill that no other duck in the region has.

Clide · Sep 18, 2023

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Deleted Member 5045 · Sep 18, 2023

Thought I'd get a bird in flight for a change...

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spudhead · Sep 18, 2023

cormorant not the best shot

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