Hover Fly
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I’ve had a chance to document the behavior of the endangered Everglades Snail Kite and this is one of my favorite images. I was following this guy zooming along until it spotted an Apple Snail. It put on the brakes shot at it’s prey. This is the transition that lasted a split second.
When visiting Commonwealth in the rain, I spotted this house sparrow hovering above the grass, then setting back down. I saw this behavior a few years ago and had limited success in capturing it, so I decided to give it another try, this time with more success.
I've never seen a Red-shouldered Hawk do what this one did today. It came down from the top of the tree, obviously with prey in its sights, right in front of a group of photographers. It then hovered right in front of us for seconds, landing on the bannister adjacent to the group, then flew back to the trees but landed upside down on a branch before taking off in embarrassment a few seconds later. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
A sequence of images as a small study of the common kestrel's hovering flight. Hovering allows a kestrel to remain stationary and carefully scan the ground below, looking for prey. Note that the position of the head is kept still during the hovering movement.
The pop-out three dimensional appearance of the little hover fly against the deep orange flower mainly due to the light at that particular moment - nice assist from the sunshine. Yay - let's hear it for the sunshine!!
Tithonia - In our garden.
White Wagtail (Motacilla alba), caught in flight in front of our van...
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I have been blessed to see and photograph hundreds of American Bald Eagles in the wild. Only once did I see one stop in flight and hover as if a Kestrel. I was glad to have captured this moment! Taken over Silver Glen, Florida.
Blessings, John
There was a group of gannets flapping around trying to come into land. There was an almost equal number of photographers also flapping around trying to get their camera settings right to catch a bird in flight. This is one of the better pictures that I got.
Red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) from North Jutland Region in Denmark, 23-04-2021.
The image was taken from a mobile Tragopan hide during my own private tour.
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This male Belted Kingfisher had a fish spotted and was waiting for the right moment. They are so quick and difficult to photograph.
One of the several news coverage helicopters hovering our evening sky on the evening of the devastating fire, which destroyed part of the 34-unit condo 4-story building nearby.
A superimposed image, with the helicopter taken at 500mm and the sky at 100mm, within an hour of each other .
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Let's face it now, it isn't everyday we see a genuine example of anti gravity anywhere let alone in agarden is it now? Yet here we have it along with the evidence, and not just any garden - it's in our garden! I know, it's incredible, but its not for sale so don't even go there.
The only other example I can think of is those UFO things that keep turning up on people's phones, but as folks don't believe in those, that makes this little baby unique does it not.
I'll tell you something else, it's totally silent, doesn't make a sound and you can pass your hands all around and underneath it like one of those stage magicians - it doesn't seem to mind. Nor, does it limit itself to any one flowerbed, oh no it moves with it's whims not just the sun, hot border in the morning, vegetable patch in the afternoon - it even followed me into the house one day!
A couple of days after taking this very photo, my wife and I had to pop to the garden centre (we were looking for something inter dimensional) and this little baby kept pace with us for an entire kilometre. It was only as we turned out of our road and my wife put the pedal to the metal that we thought we had lost it - I say 'thought' because when we pulled into the car park at the garden centre about 10 miles away there it was! I don't think anyone else saw it for it was hovering about 50 feet in the air directly over the compost bags, as it did so it slowly rotated and as the sun caught its petals it appeared to change colour - just like one of those bona fide UFOs that don't exist, and when we got home an hour later, there it was, sunning itself next to the garlic. I know, I know, it's incredible, but it isn't for sale so don't even go there....
Hovering, on the lookout for the smallest snake, the claws already ready to seize the prey....
(short-toed snake eagle)
En vol stationnaire, à l'affût du moindre serpent, les griffes déjà prêtes à saisir la proie....
(Circaète Jean-le-Blanc)
Im Schwebeflug, auf der Suche nach der geringsten Schlange, die Krallen bereits bereit, die Beute zu ergreifen....
(Schlangenadler)
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My contribution of a hovering Kingfisher at Lackford Lakes... The hide was crowded with awesome fellow togs who have captured and posted some amazing hover shots over the last week of welcomed record breaking winter sunshine. I thank you kindly for you comments and support. Take care
I always find it fascinating to observe Rough-legged hawks hover for some time while hunting. They usually hover much higher in the sky however this time the hawk was lower and did not land after scrutinizing the ground for prey.
Je trouve toujours ça fascinant de voir les Buses pattues faire du sur place quand elles chassent. C'est habituellement de beaucoup plus haut qu'elles le font. Celle-ci s'est arrêtée en vol à cet endroit et a attentivement observé le sol à la recherche d'une proie. Elle a ensuite continué sans se poser.