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Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris
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I'm here, trying to catch my dinner, what's your excuse for being in the rain?
I'd had to walk a long way across the paddock to find this Kite.
I'd risked the impending squall, but it swept in quickly.
Snail Kites are one of my favorite hawks. I believe this is a young male who will turn more slate colored as he ages. Females and juvenile males have a beautiful brown pattern but the adult males, are striking with bright red eyes that pop against their dark feathers. In this image, I like seeing the curved wing tips and the beak, perfectly adapted to extract snail from their shell, emphasized against the blue. sky. As always, feel free to chime in if you have knowledge to share. (Rostrhamus sociabilis) (Sony a9iii, 200-600 lens @ 500mm, f/6.3, 1/3200 second, ISO 800).
Whistling Kite, Haliastur sphenurus
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Another from the Kites at Play sequence. This one is climbing and turning to circle a tree.
Clover Point, Victoria - A festival that celebrated flying kites on Victoria’s shoreline will not take flight again in 2018.
The Victoria International Kite Festival Society announced they will not be continuing the event that ran at Clover Point for three years.
Kite surfers near Ano Nuevo State Park, between Half Moon bay and Santa Cruz, California.
Looks like fun, but there are sharks out there. Great whites. I think I'll stay on shore with my cameras.
Snail kites inhabit marsh habitats in both the Everglades of south Florida and shorelines of lakes in central Florida. They frequently can be seen slowly flying along the shorelines seeking their primary food item, the apple snail. At other times, you may see a kite perched on a clump of cattail or in a willow tree. During droughts, kites may disperse from their traditional range in the Everglades and larger lakes from Lake Okeechobee north to Lake Tohopekaliga and show up at smaller lakes and marshes throughout south and central Florida. Snail kites nest during February to August in Florida. During the nonbreeding season, kites may form large communal roosts in both cattail and willow stands where they can be seen flying into the site 1-2 hours before sunset.
It is along the margins of Lakes Okeechobee, Kissimmee and Tohopekaliga where most boaters or anglers may see a snail kite and where kites are most vulnerable to human disturbance.
Found this male in Lake Kissimmee at Joe Overstreet Landing, Osceola County, Florida.
Snail Kite - Sani Lodge, Sucumbios, Ecuador
Bird Species (# 566) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000.
eBird Report and listing details - macaulaylibrary.org/asset/614858774
It seemed almost criminal to arrest these kites in a still photograph, but here they are, under glass, for a dark winter day.
The Everglade snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) is awide-ranging New World raptor species found primarily in lowland freshwater marshes in tropical and subtropical America from Florida, Cuba, and Mexico south to Argentina and Peru. The subspecies from Florida and Cuba (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus) was first listed as endangered pursuant to the Endangered Species Conservation Act in 1967. The common name used in theoriginal listing was Everglade snail kite and this remains unchanged in the official FWS Code of Federal Regulations, even though the official name for the species is now simply snail kite. The Florida population of snail kites is considered to be a single population with considerable distributional shifts. The combination of a range restricted to the watersheds of the Everglades lakes, Okeechobee and Kissimmee,and the upper St. Johns River, with a highly specific diet composed almost entirely of apple snails (Pomacea paludosa), makes the snail kites survival directly dependent on the hydrology and water quality of these watersheds. Each of these watersheds has experienced,and continues to experience, pervasive degradation due to urban development and agricultural activities.
I found this female at Joe Overstreet Landing on Lake Kissimmee in Osceola County, Florida.
A lucky shot , off on a walk to the edge of the Common and I had only gone a couple of minutes when the red kite did a couple of circles round gaining height . A rapid point and capture of only two shots and this one was the better to post .
Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus axillaris
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A few weeks back I put up some shots from a nesting pair. They had set up a nest in the top of a dead tree, in the open. Most unusual.
A week or so later after some large storms, rain and wind, we checked and the nest was no longer in use. The adults were still around, but not attending the nest.
Conclusion: They lost the clutch.
Wrong! This morning we found them working with three very active young.
Determanation is built into Black-shouldered Kite dna.
A brahminy kite (haliastur indus) flying across an angry sky. Photographed on Hat Yao Noi, Phang Nga, Thailand.
Whistling Kite
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The endless hunt for a meal.
Such big birds, at speed they seem to have no problem slipping low down tthrough the trees
When you need a break, you just park your kite and find a place to relax, grab something to drink and maybe a sandwich or two.
Waddell Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay, California.
A great place for kite-boarders, wind surfers and for capturing photons reflected off them.