Soaring/Glider-flying
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I had to use a higher ISO than I like to with my camera so this one is a little soft from the noise reduction. However I couldn't have gotten the shot like I did of this great egret at high island rookery with thisbeautiful sky without it being that high
Red Kite - Milvus Milvus
Persecuted to near extinction in the UK, the Red Kite has made a tremendous comeback thanks to reintroduction programmes and legal protection. Seeing one of these magnificent birds soaring high in the sky is a true delight.
Once a very rare bird that could only be found in Central Wales, the Red Kite has been successfully reintroduced to several areas of the UK and can now be seen in Wales, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and the Chilterns. A large, graceful bird of prey, it soars over woods and open areas, its distinctive shape and 'mewing' calls making it easy to identify. Red Kites were routinely persecuted as hunters of game and domestic animals, but they are in fact scavengers, eating carrion and scraps, and taking only small prey like rabbits.
Red kites were common in Shakespearean London, where they fed on scraps in the streets and collected rags or stole hung-out washing for nest-building materials. Shakespeare even referred to this habit in 'The Winter's Tale' when he wrote: 'When the kite builds, look to lesser linen'. The nest of a red kite is an untidy affair, often built on top of an old Crow's nest. It is lined with sheep's wool and decorated with all kinds of objects like paper, plastic and cloth.
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Looking up from the fields surrounding my caravan into the sky on day one of my week away in (Looe, South-East) Cornwall.
Created using: Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
Buff-Tailed Bumblebee Queen | Bombus terrestris | Apidae
Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro
Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld
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A Cormorant enjoys the storm force winds as the high seas batter the seawall and lighthouse at Newhaven, East Sussex.
Majestic and intense, these Bald Eagles patrol the open water looking for their next meal.
St. Clair River,
Guthrie Park, Corunna , ON
My husband and I recently took a trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. On the trip back home the wind was blowing pretty hard and was kicking up snow and producing these really cool images. It still amazes me how much just converting an image to black and white can change the overall photo!
P.S. This was taken through a windshield going about 70mph!
A Sandwich Tern soars along Gandy Beach
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This is one of my favourite photos I've taken this year. There are many brilliant wildlife pictures on Flickr and in terms of image quality this does not compete: it was taken in lowlight well after sunset and was subject to a fairly severe crop. However, it was the first time I'd seen an owl in the wild and I managed to track it over several fields before grabbing this hand held shot. To me, this is a big part of the enjoyment of photography. Finding something new and of interest and capturing it to the best of one's ability. The owl may have been soaring but my heart was too!
A westbound Canadian National freight crosses the Fraser River over Cisco Bridge at Cisco, British Columbia, on September 27, 2001. Powering the train is the interesting consist of EMD SD50F No. 5450 leading a trio of former CN SD40s now owned by Alstom, but still lettered GEC Alsthom Transport, and rebuilt into SD40-3s. CN’s Cisco Bridge is 247 meters (810 feet) long and 67 meters (220 feet) high, and also crosses over the parallel Canadian Pacific main line.
Another photo where I am just showing my progress on learning to photo flying birds. I feel like there is a good photo in a silhouette flight against the clouds. Now I just need to perfect it.
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I have been to the end of the earth.
I have been to the end of the waters.
I have been to the end of the sky.
I have been to the end of the mountains.
I have found none that are not my friends.
Navajo saying
Blue Heron flying over the lake at sunset on the way back to the rookery.
Colorado, USA
EXPLORED
Thanks folks.
The sun breaks out above morning clouds while Seagull flies overhead. View of lower New York harbor with Coney Island in background.
Re edit of color version from 2014.
A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head, devoid of normal feathers. Although it has been historically believed to help keep the head clean when feeding, the bare skin may play an important role in thermoregulation.
Vultures have been observed to hunch their bodies and tuck in their heads in the cold, and open their wings and stretch their necks in the heat. #HSS #sundaysliders #sliderssunday
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I'm so drawn to birds in flight. I think that is because they are symbolic for me of freedom and spiritual ascension.
I've used the central part of Nesster's TTV to enhance the light. Many thanks Nesster!
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A view of The Fenchurch Building from Lombard Street.
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Back to one of the countless waterfalls in Iceland, the mighty Skogafoss. As I mentioned in the caption of Where Rainbows End, the crowds of tourists forced me to zoom into the scene and shoot more intimate compositions. And as luck would have it, at the exact moment I pressed the shutter to take a picture of this abstract-looking composition of falling water, a bird flew through the scene and I happened to catch it right in the third of the frame. So unlike the image At World's End which I took in the Westfjords where we really waited until a bird was in the frame, this image was pure luck, and since I couldn’t get any of the classic compositions with the river in the foreground because of all the people, I was really happy when I noticed the bird on the back display of my camera. I hope you like it too!
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This image was started a long time ago. I took the sunset with my 300mm lens back in July 2013, but was never happy with it due to ugly power lines silhouetted by the sun. I cloned those out, but still discarded the image. Then, still some time ago, I took some shots of a starling murmuration and now this is the resulted composite. HSS, and hopefully this is a welcome break from all the wintry weather some of my Flickr friends are suffering.