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I actually took this shot a bus stop this morning, as I waited to go into Guildford town centre, and luckily had my big lens with me.
I have no idea what these birds are, and it seemed an odd time to see a large flock of birds, which I imagine were a mile away, maybe over Worplesdon way. I viewed them for four or five minutes, but then they seem to disappear into the distance.
Guildford, Surrey
30th April 2022 at 10.45am
20220430 2I8A 9794
A flock of birds takes flight as Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-57 mission launches from the Kennedy Space Center on June 21, 1993. This was the first flight of the commercially developed SPACEHAB laboratory module.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: KSC-93PC-0879
Date: June 21, 1993
The day we went tramping and I forgot my camera - bugger! But yay to the handy iPhone! It was an awesome day! And here is the evidence! :)
This is my first experience seeing a flock of terns fly. They were grouped on a sandbar in the San Elijo lagoon. And every so often they would all take flight and circle around a small section of the lagoon. When they flew, they squawked loudly and could not be missed. Unfortunately, I was never close to them when they took flight. I was probably a quarter mile away for this shot. A short while after this shot, they took flight again, but this time they dispersed in pairs and small groups all flying towards the ocean. Only a few remained behind on the sand bar after that.
These flying pigeons almost look like they were painted on that sky... I'm happy with this 'painted' rendering.
Located at Victoria Rooms, Bristol. Feel free to look at the rest of my Shaun In The City Trial series, I always appreciate your comments. Many Thanks.
A flock of lapwings flies by at Leighton Moss nature reserve, Lancashire. A slow shutter speed was used to blur movement.
Shepherds graze their flocks on the foothills near the Vashlovani reserve during the winter, when it is too cold to make use of the primary summer pasturage above the tree line in the Caucasus mountains
A Sunday drive through the countryside during a good storm always produces some interesting photos. Found these hens busy dodging rain drops, run one way, turning and running the other. I caught them mid-turn 😎
From L to R Olympus OM-1n, OM-2n, OM-1 + Winder 2
image made with OM-1n + T32 flash Fomapan action 400 film
Canadian Pacific train 642 with a crispy SD60 leading blasts through Pewaukee. See Lime Nuggets version here: www.flickr.com/photos/drewhalv/8455769965/
At least we weren't on the same side of the tracks.
Flocking dosen't get much better than this! CP 4450 and Soo 4425 make a trip down to the river front to spot some cars at River and Rail. Was nearly impossible to locate the track on the street prior to the train coming through.
Unruly Flock. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A somewhat disorganized flock of lesser sandhill cranes in flight.
Over the time that I've photographed birds I have gradually become more aware of the personalities of different species and even different subgroups. For example, the sound of one goose may be lower in pitch than another, one sort of egret is less tolerant of humans than another, the way cranes flock is quite different from geese, and so on. Learning about these differences — and I'm still far from being an expert! — is both fascinating and useful. For example, I can more accurately recognize types of birds based on how a flock behaves, an so on.
Sandhill cranes have idiomatic behaviors that differentiate them from other flocking birds such as geese and ibises. The group size is one element — I've never seen them airborne in numbers approaching those of big flocks of geese. The organization of flocks in flight is much "looser" than that of geese. There is usually no traditional "V" pattern, and they sometimes give the appearance of coming close to colliding with one another. They also look around a lot in flight — somewhere I have a photograph that includes one with it head twisted around to look straight up! They don't like flying directly over photographers, and will usually divert to one side or the other.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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