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Hover flies, are beautiful and their amazing hovering abilities, make them ideal photographic subjects. There are about 250 species in the UK. The adults feed mainly on nectar but the larvae include carnivores, vegetarians and scavengers. Depending on the species, they fly from March to November.
Finally understood why she is always so hungry, this attack happened after days of very bad weather with very few insects flying around, she must have been very hungry , she ate this poor hover fly as we eat a lobster, even the legs were broken one by one.. this is a document that gives me the creeps, but it is a document of the habits of this strange insect , have you ever seen yourself while you are eating a lobster ? and isn't it a bloody scene when a torero wounds and tortures and kills a poor bull ?
Osprey at John Chesnut Senior Park, Palm Harbor, FL
On a technical note, I did crop off the left end of the wing during photo editing because otherwise it made the osprey's face smaller and harder to see. I generally don't do that but, for this image, I felt it provided a better image.
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One from two years ago and a trip to the National Trust managed Rievaulx Terrace.
These hover flies make a great subject as they are often statuary for long enough and the narrow depth of field allows for backgrounds to be blurred.
The Archives Revisited.
November 2008.
A day trip to Brandon Marsh in Northamptonshire. Not many photo opportunities. But i had forgotten that i had this sequence of Kingfisher hovering images.
A sequence of 4 images.
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I just couldn't stay away from these, I'm at least two weeks away from having a stopshot setup and I'm way to addicted to these to stay away that long...lol. I hope everyone enjoys, thanks for looking.
This hover fly was enjoying the water along this grass stalk. I was the photographic stalker in the garden.
An osprey (pandion haliaetus) hovering high above the Fraser River, in British Columbia, Canada. I was fishing for sturgeon, from a boat, when I saw this bird and it remained above us for some time.
I had several chances to photograph the pied kingfisher while it was hovering but I wasn't satisfied with any of them. Either the light was bad, the bird was simply too far away, distracting background, it was always something.
Our last day this guy finally cooperated a bit. Thank you!
Nairobi, Kenya
When I didn't find any puffins on the Island of Skomer, I started looking for other wildlife to photograph. This seagull was using the strong wind to hover in a near stationary position just near a cliff. Unfortunately, the wind was so strong that it made it almost impossible to keep my long lens pointed in is direction.
A small build, inspired by Christopher Hoffman's brilliant vignette.
In other news I will be attending Brickfair Virginia.
Information & Credits are on the blog post.. rissasecondlife.blogspot.com/2018/08/hover-scooter.html