Photographed at Muriwai.

Three birds. One sky. Zero tolerance for offbeat wingwork. These airborne aces aren’t just flying; they’re performing a synchronized routine that would make a fighter squadron jealous. Spaced perfectly across a moody gradient of sunrise (or is it sunset?), they look like they’re headed to a very exclusive meeting where the dress code is “feathers and finesse.”

This image is nature’s version of a boy band mid-tour: dramatic lighting, perfect spacing, and just enough mystery to keep you guessing.

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shot at Autumn Trace, Tranquil Bay

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Taken on a walk with my granddaughter recently. We were standing on the Mimico Waterfront Deck

spring geezers

A very active early morning Barred Owl

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Photographed on the Ashdown Forest.

mono, Penbryn, Ceredigion

Snow Geese at Middlecreek Wildlife Management Area, Kleinfelstersville, PA

Sunrise at Flagler Beach, watching the pelicans fly in formation.

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A large raptor around 55-70 cms tall and weighing around 1.5 - 2.4 kg and found throughout the year in India. They are probably the smallest of the 9 species of vultures found in India. The birds are very distinctive and easily recognizable unlike some of the other vultures which are confusing to id.

This one is an adult with the full white plumage and yellowish face and beak. Immatures tend to be totally brown with a greyish face. The birds are often seen around carcass dumpyards or in the deserts where dead cattle / animals are lying rotten. In our Rajasthan trip last week, we sighted 100+ of them all around the state - they are quite common there. In fact, Rajasthan has 7 of the 9 vultures found in India. Like most vultures, this is quite shy of people, but many a time, we found very close to the nomad settlements perched on the poles or walking around on the ground.

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Rook in flight at Co Down, N Ireland.

Located at the edge of Orlando, Florida's Lake Eola, the sculpture "Take Flight Orlando" depicts a group of birds taking flight into the sky. The birds are made of cast alloy and are welded together and have color-changing lights. This stunning sculpture was created by Douwe Blumberg.

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Jamberoo, NSW Australia

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This guy had a broken leg I believe. He flew with no problem but he could not kick the other birds very well

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Seagull free flight over the rough sea at sunset

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Cormorant landing on water

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This Osprey in flight was seen above the nesting platform (shown in this image I posted earlier www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/53361991492/in... ) near the famous Road 22 close to Osoyoos in southcentral British Columbia, Canada. A magnificent raptor — check out those long, curved, and very sharp talons.

My favourite (so far). Love the wing spread. Still blurred, despite the shutter speed.

Taken at Frampton Marsh.

thanks to Foxydoc007 for her encouragement to take photos of birds.

Cormorant after take off

Grey heron

Bothkamper See, Germany

Flight

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Well I’m back from a series of travels (Keswick, Pitlochry and Texas so hopefully I can be a bit more active on Flickr than I have over much of the year. My new mancave is complete and I ‘just’ need to kit it out with furniture and move my printer and computer in it then Mrs P is optimistic she won’t have me under her feet as much!

As a number of you know I normally have quite a backlog of editing and the last few weeks has only made this worse! Anyway, I’m not going to complain but please forgive my absence and lack of comments. I won’t say I’ll catch up but I will try to be on her a bit more regularly and I’ll ask for your understanding and forbearance. Retirement is hard work!!

Anyway, decided to skip Lakes & Scotland for a bit for my recent Texas trip. A number of you may know Sapna Reddy as she has a high profile in the photography world and has given up her white gown to go pro full time. I booked myself on her workshop in Caddo Lake, texas after seeing various photos of the cypress trees there. Now there will be a number of photos of those coming but I wanted to start off with something a bit different both in terms of what I shoot and the type of bird it is…..well for us in the UK it’s rather unusual.

As part of the workshop we had a number of boat trips out on the Bayou to shoot the trees and wildlife. ‘Unfortunately’ for much of the time the weather was too good so the light became harsh really quickly after sunrise and stayed harsh until just a few mins before sunset. However, that did mean we went searching for wildlife and seeing a Bald Eagle is something that I think will stay with me forever. Initially it was perched in a tree obviously watching for food and Togs on boats so eventually it thought it would give us some excitement and flew between trees. I was lucky enough to have my 100-500mm lens on and hit the shutter button more in hope than expectation. I managed to get about 10 shots with the bird roughly in focus and decided this one with the wings outstretched and the light on it was the one to post.

It was shot at ISO 3200 so I have run it through DXO Pure Raw 4 and then the ON1 Photo Raw 2026 version of its Resize AI application. I know from some of the other workshop participants that they can take far better birds-in-flight shots but I’m pretty chuffed with it as it’s not my area of expertise and was shot from a moving boat.

More tales/shots to follow pardners!

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Bound for the Caribbean from Miami. Can you ID this island? This view is looking southeast.

Update 20AUG22:

I'm almost certain that this is Grand Turk, the capital island of the Turks and Caicos archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean.

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An oystercatcher flying over a sun drenched sea loch.

Photographing eagles at the Lake Jordan Dam at Moncure, North Carolina, USA. They nest and raise their young along the spillover into the Haw River. I rented a lens specifically for this weekend to photograph the eagles. What a great investment as I would have never been able to capture this photo with the gear I own.

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Explored - Highest position #123 on March 17, 2020. Thanks for all your views, comments and Favs.

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For 52 in 2020 Challenge Group

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