Nice hover shots! I love to watch them do that. I've seen Kestrels hover like that too.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
A belted kingfisher once escorted my dogs and me for a short distance on a walk. The edge of the road drops steeply down to a brook. As we walked, the bird flew just ahead of us and onto a tree limb that was at my eye level, just a few feet from me. Critter looked at us, chattered, and raised and lowered the crest (if memory serves--though I might be making that part up). Flew ahead a bit, landed, waited for us to get near, spoke some more, flew ahead, waited, chattered, then flew off.
And when RD posts some knockout pics of an owl, I'll tell you my owl story.
ooh, cool.
tech question - the first two photos enlarge when clicked, but the third does not. did you post them differently? (or am i flakey . . .)
Rurality-- When I would ride my bike to work through a big meadow in the hills above Monterey Bay, I would watch the kestrels hover like this. I never had a camera with me, but I sure wish I did.
CCorax-- Only had two owl sighting experiences, one was in southern California--DPR, family, friends, and I were sitting in a hot-tub (what else?), it was around 10:00 at night, and suddenly there was a strange sound of whooshing, whooshing-- accompanied by small eep eep eeping sounds. The sounds came closer and closer until a huge owl flew over the hot-tub carrying a small mammal in its talons. Years later, DPR and I went for a walk just after dusk in a residential seaside community. We noticed a fairly large bird sitting on some wires in front of a lovely home. As we approached we could see it turn its owl head, look at us, and fly off. That's it, no photos.
soccer mom-- You're not flakey at all, in fact, that's a good call on the photos. The third picture was cropped so it would focus entirely on the very small image of the kingfisher. Usually i am able to use the full zoom on the camera to get the close-up, but this bird was moving so fast I didn't get to take my time, and arrange things just so. Little picture.
Wow, please tell me more about your technique. I've tried birds in flight and it is extremely hard to get tight enough on them to get a decent image.
What kind of lens are you using? How are you holding the camera?
Cervantes-- I had an extremely difficult time taking these photos. These are pure luck. I couldn't focus on the bird, it was moving much too quickly. I told DPR, I clicked twice on things that appeared like shadows in the viewfinder. I was amazed that I got anything at all. The camera comes with a Leica lens. I use the viewfinder instead of the LCD monitor, hold the camera with my right hand, steady it with the left.
Those pictures are great! Good action shots!
I love the drop shot! We followed a Kingfisher for about 15 minutes the other day in our canoe but did not get one photo, good or otherwise.
great shots! i can't imagine ever seeing one of those here in philly, so thanks for sharing. reminds me a little of watching a pelican dive into the atlantic after fish.
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