Birds In Flight... Upload your photos.

[Game Warden]

Show us your birds in flight photos. Please include details, where, when etc and camera/lens specs. Thanks, Matt.

[Treepol]

Pink-backed pelicans, Phinda September 2012

 

[Rainbirder]

African Hawk Eagle. Kilaguni, Tsavo West, Kenya, July 2012.
Canon 7D + 500mm IS lens + 1.4x TC handheld.

Edited March 1, 2013 by Rainbirder

[johnkok]

Streamlined

Great White Egret (Ardea alba)

Eagle Island Camp, Central Okavango Delta, Botswana

Nikon D3S 400/2.8 VR

Aug 2010 7:45am

Edited November 15, 2012 by johnkok

[Game Warden]

John, sorry forgot to add, have started a new topic re your question about photo uploads here. Matt.

[johnkok]

Leaving

Bradfield's Hornbill (Tockus bradfieldi) in flight

-19.06400,27.25103 (19°03'50.4"S 027°15'03.7"E)

September 2012 4:31pm

Little Makalolo, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

Nikon D4 1/3200 sec f4 ISO 800 EV0 200 mm

Edited November 15, 2012 by johnkok

[johnkok]

On the wing

 

Rufous-bellied Heron (Ardeola rufiventris)

-19.54571,23.04803 (19°32'44.5"S 023°02'52.9"E)

August 2010 4:30pm

Nikon D3S + 400/2.8 VR 1/1600s f6.3 ISO 400 EV+1/3 400mm

Eagle Island Camp, Central Okavango Delta, Botswana

[Rainbirder]

Verreaux's Eagle

Baringo Cliffs, Lake Baringo, Kenya

Edited March 1, 2013 by Rainbirder

[Rainbirder]

Eastern Grey Crowned Crane, Ol Tukai Swamp, Amboseli, Kenya, July 2012

Edited March 1, 2013 by Rainbirder

[ZaminOz]

love that crowned crane Rainbirder!

[Panthera Pardus]

Black Chested Snake Eagle, Urikaruus Camp, Kgalalgadi Transfrontier Park

 

 

Canon 7D and a Canon 100-400 Lens.

[Kingfisher Safaris]

Saddle-Billed Stork, Okavango, Botswana

 

[Kingfisher Safaris]

Juvenile African Fish Eagle in Makgadikgadi, Botswana

 

 

 

[Panthera Pardus]

Pale Chanting Goshawk in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Taken with Canon 7D and Canon 100-400 lens

 

 

 

 

[Kingfisher Safaris]

African Darter in the Boteti River, Botswana

 

 

 

[Panthera Pardus]

Lanner Falcon at Grootkolk Camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

 

 

 

 

Canon 7D and Canon 100-400 Lens

[Panthera Pardus]

Yellow Billed Stork taken at Sunset Dam, near Lower Sabie in Kruger. Canon 7D and Canon 500 lens

 

 

[Panthera Pardus]

Namaqua Sandgrouse taken at Unions End Waterhole in the KTP with Canon 7D and Canon 500 Lens

 

 

 

[Panthera Pardus]

Secretary Bird at Urikaruus Camp in the KTP. Canon 7D and Canon 100-400 Lens

 

 

 

[Panthera Pardus]

Graeter kestrel taken in the KTP with Canon 7D and canon 100-400 lens

 

 

[Sangeeta]

The Namaqua sandgrouse are beautiful together like that in flight. The wings on that kestrel look so very strong.

[Panthera Pardus]

Black Shouldered Kites taken in KTP. Canon 7D and Canon 100-400 lens

 

Adult

 

Juvenile

 

[africapurohit]

@@Panthera Pardus fantastic photos as usual. What are your preferred settings with the 7D + 100-400mm combo, when trying to capture birds in flight?

[Panthera Pardus]

@@africapurohit - I shoot in Aperture Prioroty Mode mainly but have used Manual Mode sometimes. In the KTP my ISO is 100 mostly sometimes 200. For birds in flight I aim for a shutter speed of 1/1600 or faster.

[Peter Connan]

All these are from the Klaserie Private Nature Reserve (Hoedspruit, South Africa) last weekend:

 

Brown-headed Parrots:

 

Egyptian Geese:

 

Oxpeckers:

 

Lilac-breasted roller: