Hover Fly
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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.
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!
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.
Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)
Habitat : Open Woodlands
Food : Nectar
Nesting : Trees
Behavior : Hovering
Conservation : Low Concern
Brown Acres - Jackson County - Oregon
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.
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.
Taken at Westhay nature reserve in Somerset. :)
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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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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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Rough-legged hawks only arrive in late autumn from locations in the high arctic to winter here in Iowa. These large raptors often hover like a helicopter over grassy fields while looking for meadow voles or similar small mammal snacks.
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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