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The oft-quoted conventional wisdom is that there are only two hovering raptors in our area, the Kestrel and the Black-shouldered Kite. But it's not entirely true - we passed this very dark BF yesterday, hovering for 30 secs at least. They're not exactly the smoothest hoverers and don't do it nearly as often as the aforementioned birds. A kind of brute-force hover compared to the refined and less effortful Kestrel.
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Shot in Lumut, Perak, Malaysia with an Olympus E-P3 camera, M. Zuiko 60/2.8 Macro lens and an Olympus FL-600R flash.
Did you know...
A kestrel is capable of locating its prey at remarkable distances - it can see and catch a beetle 50 m from its perch. Kestrels need to eat 4-8 voles a day, depending on the time of the year and the amount of energy-consuming hover-hunting they do. They have a habit of catching several voles in succession and cacheing some for later.
The stored food is usually eaten the same day just before dusk. This reduces the risk that the bird would have to go to roost on an empty stomach.
Kestrel~Falco tinnunculus
OLYMPUS XZ-1 / Flying (Hovering) Dragonfly
It is difficult to photo the insect which is flying in compact digital camera.
Movement is too early and cannot catch the dragonfly in the Auto Focus by compact digital camera.
I observed a dragonfly and noticed the following things.
The dragonfly has a habit to stop to the same branch repeatedly.
Therefore focused the dragonfly which stopped to a branch in a Manual Focus and waited for a dragonfly to fly away.
After having flown away, I pressed the shutter at the moment when the dragonfly returned to the same branch.
(Since I am poor at English, a comment is described using translation software in many cases.
There may be a strange part in description.
Please forgive. :-)　　)
Bokeh Wednesdays
This tiny Hover Fly landed on the Rabbit or Honey Bush which was great since I think it definitely added some interest to the photo...
Happy Bokeh Wednesdays Everyone!!!
Celebrating the release of minkcarcover.com! Me + TMBG = happy.
My track is available at minkcarcover.bandcamp.com/track/hovering-sombrero. All proceeds from Mink Car Cover benefit the FDNY Foundation.
Prefabricated housing has a long tradition in New Zealand. The hovering cottages of the late 1920s are still seen around idyllic inlets and quiet bays.
Pied Kingfisher hovers over it's pray, until it has locked it's pray. After locking it's pray, Pied Kingfisher dives dives vertically directly at it's pray.
While hovering, Pied Kingfisher manages to remain stationary in air while locking it's prey. It's great sight to watch.
This is uncropped image.
Canon 1000D + Sigma 70–300mm f/4–5.6 APO DG Macro lens doesn't help much in getting a sharp images.
@Kalamba Lake, Kolhapur.
It took me a while to convince the people I was with that hovering on a nice sunny day like this is a piece of cake, but air sea rescue crews (even princes) can't choose the weather when they get a call, so this must be a cornerstone of their training.
Macro shot of a Hover Fly on a Daisy like flower - taken on the side of a road near Great Waltham ESSEX.
Olympus E620
ZUIKO 35mm lens
F3.5 @ 1/2000 second exposure
ISO 100
A hover fly underneath a forest canopy. This was particularly difficult to take considering the shallow depth of field of f / 2.8 and the movement of the hover fly. It took a large number of wasted shots to give just this one that was in focus and not blurred. Even at a shutter speed of 1 / 800 sec, you can see the wings of the hover fly are blurry. I believe they flap something like 2,000 times a second.
*Taken from the Lapse of the Shutter blog
This shot took me quite a while. The flies really do not have a good timing - at least for photographers. ;-)
Managed to capture some shots of this Kestrel as she was scouring the fields surrounding Broxburn,West Lothian on a gorgeous winters evening.
Fast! We can do fast here, fast enough to see wings flapping. Been at these for an hour, and this is the only good one. Hard to get them in the light and focussed, but one good one is well worth the work. VIEW LARGE, it resolves!
After the swans and the bubbles, I think I've found a new subject. Didn't even have to go looking two feet past my front door!
I didn't think it would possible to capture a flying bee from this close-up, because the depth of field from f/2.8 (need for speed) gets shorter as you get closer, comparitively, so I thought I'd get so little of him in focus that it would look too abstract. As it is, I think it's worked out nicely.
I don't think one can tire of seeing the ability of hummers to hover. I watched these little guys for some time in the rain, until we had to rush off in time to get ready for our flight home.
I could not freeze the whole bird, but it seems its head was staying quite still even as the little wings were beating at phenomenal speed. This is a Green-crowned Brilliant
This hover bike was announced on Lugnet in 2005 (http://news.lugnet.com/announce/moc/?n=2571). It was inspired by a design by Elroy Davis.
I believe this is a hover fly of some description. Looks like he's having a spot of lunch - although the pollen looks suspiciously like some other banned substance. He'll be flying-high. :-)
Hovering Hummingbird.
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