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Male Bufflehead Duck at Duck Creek Conservation Area in Stoddard County, Missouri. Taken February 19, 2022.
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Newly fledged, still has down feathers and still clumsy, this Peregrine Falcon boy bravely took his first flight.
Explore #1 on Saturday July 18, 2009
A flock of pigeons at sunset
Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds. In general parlance the terms "dove" and "pigeon" are used somewhat interchangeably. In ornithological practice, there is a tendency for "dove" to be used for smaller species and "pigeon" for larger ones, but this is in no way consistently applied, and historically the common names for these birds involve a great deal of variation between the term "dove" and "pigeon." This family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones. The doves and pigeons are called "squabs."
Doves and pigeons build relatively flimsy nests from sticks and other debris, which may be placed in trees, on ledges, or on the ground, depending on species. They lay one or two eggs, and both parents care for the babies, which leave the nest after 7 to 28 days. Doves feed on seeds, fruit and plants. Unlike most other birds, the doves and pigeons produce "crop milk," which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop. Both male and female produce this highly nutritious substance to feed to the babies.
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White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
The mate of the Heron that featured last Wednesday. I have no idea what spooked them into flight.
I was curious to see how many Yellow-billed Spoonbill in-flight captures I posted on Flickr. I've found only one posted in 2015! I also discovered that it had one view and no faves - for some unexplicable reasons I posted several images of that spoonbill as private. Anyway - this is my second post of the Yellow-billed Spoonbil in flight, almost 8 years later...
PS. I've made some of the private shots public now (-;
Common Grackle wiping the floor at the 79th str. entrance , Central park.
#birdsinflight #flyingbirds #birds_in_flight #black @BirdCentralpark #commongrackle
I was able to get a shot at this Seagull in full flight by panning with a 300 mm lens. View On Black
Formationsflug auf dem Hexenbesen
Formation flight on the witch broom
Vom Nordpol zum Südpol ist nur 'nen Katzensprung
Wir fliegen die Strecke bei jeder Witterung
Wir warten nicht wir starten was immer auch geschieht
Durch Wind und Wetter klingt das Fliegerlied:
Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne
Grüß mir die Sterne und grüß mir den Mond
Dein Leben, das ist das Schweben
Durch die Ferne, die keiner bewohnt.
Happy Sunday and HSS! Trying to post a bit more now that I'm back in New Jersey. Gone for two months and it will take four month to get caught up with yard work. Since I've been back I drove my daughter to North Carolina to pick up her new car and to Virginia to rescue a pony for Marybeth. Not to mention the mountain of wood I've cut and split from the trees that were cut down in June. All in all, life's been good...
Last flight of the day... I thought I was going to get tired of doing sunset photos. But each time I see one, I think oh this one is different.
Don't see these elusive birds very often so delighted to catch a couple of images of this bittern in flight .. worth the wait 😃
The Mallard flock taking off in mass over the cold Lake Michigan waves. A few on the snow shelf at the bottom about to do the same.
Enlarge for a more immersive view...
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Another shot from this past weekend trip up into the UP to find some snowy owls. We didn't have blue skies a lot but was able to capture this one when the sun was out and the skies were blue.
Like two thoughts suddenly startled, the deer leap away – their flight reflex is their wind, which instantly tears them out of the present and carries them to safety.
Wie zwei Gedanken, die plötzlich erschrecken, springen die Rehe davon – der Fluchtreflex ist ihr Wind, der sie augenblicklich aus der Gegenwart reißt und in Sicherheit trägt.
Flight over Munich
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM]
Canon EOS 450D - EF 70-300 mm IS USM
Æ’/5.6
300.0 mm
1/250 Sec
ISO 800
I took this, along with some others, in low light this morning. Trying to get the hang of flight shots. Very high ISO, but the focus appeared to work pretty well. Really liking the increased speed of locking on!