Posts Tagged ‘bird in flight’
Midway Atoll and a beautiful white tern takes off from an exposed branch on a small tree. With the 500mm telephoto focused on the bird as it perched on the branch and a bit of space around the subject in the frame, I was able to get the tern entirely within frame even as it [...]
Once again from the Botswana file. A fairly common sight on the Okavango Delta was the colourful and rather stately saddle billed stork. I saw several of these birds, always solitary birds, never saw them in pairs or flocks and they spent most of their time picking through the swallows looking for prey. In this [...]
Sometimes you get lucky. I had the lens trained on this small bird, a northern white crowned shrike (Eurocephalus rueppelli), as it sat perched on a spiny acacia bush and could see that it was poised ready to take off. Fortunately, even with the long telephoto lens in use, my framing was a little “loose” [...]