BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here

[MrFotoFool]

I have not done much BIF, but got some today at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum on the outskirts of Tucson (where I live). They do a nice raptor free flight demonstration over open desert. This is a ferruginous hawk.

 

[Click]

Great shot, MrFotoFool. Well done.

 

[DominoDude]

Can someone ID this bird ? Canon 7D mkII with 400mm f5.6L

I agree with Rpt and Fragilesi, it's an Oystercatcher of some sort. If we knew where and when it was shot, we could probably dig a little deeper and get the subspecies also. We can rule out the ssp with a "Black*" in the name and also the Sooty.

Sandy Hook, NJ

Okidokey. Then my primary guess would be that it's an American oystercatcher - Haematopus palliatus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_oystercatcher

 

[Chisox2335]

Couple shots from last Sunday. Saved off my facebook onto my iPad to upload hopefully the resolution is decent.

Bald eagle and red tailed hawk

Both with a canon 70D

 

[Click]

Great shots Chisox2335.

 

[Chisox2335]

Great shots Chisox2335.

Thank you!

 

[Dylan777]

Testing out my 100-400 mrk II, not bad.

 

[AlanF]

Just spent a week in Cyprus photographing birds. I was shlepping the 5dIII + 2xTC + 300/2.8 and my wife the 7DII + 100-400 II. She knows absolutely nothing about photography and just uses my setting C1-C3 and back-button focusses. The only time it went wrong when she (initials MF) saw the MF-AF switch (I am AF) and wondered why it wouldn't focus when she switched to herself. Still, she really saved the day when we found some flamingos flying and I locked down with a "card full". She took the the two of the pairs in flight and I did the massed flight and the three head on.

 

[Click]

Very nice series Alan. I really like the last picture. Well done.

 

[justawriter]

Caught an image worth sharing, even if it is just a rat with wings, more hovering than "in flight". Ring billed gull, Harmony Lake, ND, USA, Canon 7D, Tamron 150-600, 1/640, f/10.

 

[lion rock]

Shooting at the James river again, yesterday.
5D3 300-f/2.8.
Not too many bald eagles but lots of ospreys feeding on the river.
-r

 

[AlanF]

Lesser kestrels. These birds are tiny raptors, smaller than pigeons

 

[Dylan777]

Shooting at the James river again, yesterday.
5D3 300-f/2.8.
Not too many bald eagles but lots of ospreys feeding on the river.
-r

Very nice lion rock

 

[lion rock]

Thanks Dylan,
All the photos are cropped to about 50%. It was an overcast day with temp of about 40 or so.
I borrowed the lens and it was sweet, focused very rapidly, great detail and "bright" while trying to track the birds. My friends 100-400mm-II was not so good compared the the 300mm. Best of all, I hand held the camera/lens all morning long without feeling it's weight. I went on the same trip last February a year ago with the then new 200-400 Canon lens rented, and was totally unable to hold it for more than a few minutes, simply too heavy.
Thanks for looking at the photos.
-r

Shooting at the James river again, yesterday.
5D3 300-f/2.8.
Not too many bald eagles but lots of ospreys feeding on the river.
-r

Very nice lion rock

 

[Al Chemist]

Red Tail Hawk quite unhappy with me taking pictures of the babies.
I like the reelection of this Seagull in flight.

 

[Pookie]

Lovely bird just after take off...

 

[Click]

Lovely bird just after take off...

LOL ;D Very nice looking "bird". Well done Pookie.

 

[DominoDude]

Lovely bird just after take off...

There are two kinds of birds that I enjoy. Now both sorts are covered in this thread.

 

[IgotGASbadDude]

This is a bird in flight. Actually, this is the bird when his/her flight abruptly ended with a face plant into my front room window! Don't worry, it survived! ;D

 

[Northstar]

5d3 with 300 2.8 and 1.4x
cropped
Bald Eagle soaring!