still dandelion

An old one of the Eastern Spinebill that visited my backyard last year. To my disappointment it did not return this year. The Salvia it is feeding on here (May last year) flowered so much later (July) this year. I 'm not sure if that played a role.

Stay safe all my Melbournian and Victorian friends in these gale force winds.

Wentworth.

Goldcrests and firecrests are extremely busy birds. I tried to capture one of them hovering like a hummingbird underneath this conifer, catching insects.

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I looked up and caught the Goodyear blimp floating in the evening sunset.

Dioprosopa clavata

Fauna Project

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

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Female Anna's Hummingbird pulling into hover mode

A long distance and highly cropped portrait of a male Kestrel seen hunting down at St Aidans. Thankfully just as I was focussing the sun obliged and turned on the light.

An Osprey hovers alongside the causeway, hoping to catch sight of a tasty fish.

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- Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -

A very beneficial insect that is often mistaken for bees or wasps but they are just harmless flies. They are important pollinators and a natural pest control for gardens. Macro

Short-eared Owl doing a low fly over field for lunch

the closest the barn owl came and hovered but looking nearly directly into the sun but I still quite like it

I didn't notice that I'd caught the Hoverfly coming in, until I uploaded the photos!

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Taken at Worcestershire Wildlife's Trust Upton Warren Reserve

Kestrel demonstrating her flying skills

Hovering

Emperor Dragonfly

One from the garden hovering above some food during a spell of colder weather

Kestrel male focusing on prey on the ground

Photographed at Dead Horse State Park, Arizona

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The Barn Owl site has some difficult backgrounds , light and dark in close proximity , so many images chucked , my fault not the camera or lens.

But I learned a lot in a few days , I have the owners permission to return , so I hope to do better in future.

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Camera Canon EOS 7D

Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1250)

Aperture f/5.6

Focal Length 700 mm

ISO Speed 640

Exposure Bias +1/3 EV

Hawk-Moth feasting on nectar.

Izzy is running, caught her in mid-air, so she looks as if she is hovering.

Taken on my recent trip to Yorkshire.

There were some amazing standing wave clouds hovering around the mountains tonight. This was an example of a panckaed lenticular cloud set.

There were quite a number hovering around the flowering parsley recently and I managed to get a reasonable shot. HWW

HDR, Dalecarlia, Sweden

Samsung 16mm F2.4 Pancake

Samsung NX11, 1/20-2.5 sec, F11, ISO 250

Photo captured at Kearsney Abbey Gardens Dover Kent

Schwebfliegen bei der Paarung

a nice moment when the kingfisher hovers and I manage to lock on

While I was in Vacaville the other day I decided to go & see if the Burrowing Owls had babies. Although babies didn't appear out of the burrow the owls put on a show for me. The wind was really blowing hard and when the owl spotted something in the grass below his perch he spread his wings, the wind lifted him in the air and he stayed in place 'hovering', after making several dives he was unsuccessful in catching the meal!

He would periodically fly down to the burrow, walk in, come out, fly back up to the perch and wait. A few times the mate would come out looking very perturbed, then she would walk back inside the burrow...I stayed in the car...:)

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