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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 14
Image Taken on 30 Sep 2012
at 12:28 Image of day on 08 Nov 2012
The middle of the attack and the lower birds avoidance.
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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2012
at 12:29 Image of day on 08 Nov 2012
Here is the lower bird fleeing.
Frames 9 & 10 were poor & best omitted.
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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2017
at 10:05 Image of day on 02 Oct 2017
Several Buzzards were climbing in the same thermal, making their usual
aggressive interactions whenever they came close enough.
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Image Taken on 14 Aug 2017
at 10:06 Image of day on 02 Oct 2017
Several Buzzards were climbing in the same thermal, making their usual
aggressive interactions whenever they came close enough.
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Ref: 20171002_df3_20170814_1006_185-190 2 buzzards skirmishing in flight 2-7 of 7 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Mar 2013
at 10:41 Image of day on 18 Apr 2013
A couple of distant buzzards having a bit of a set-to. These are at 7 fps
but without knowledge of the relative positions
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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2008
at 12:14 Image of day on 08 Oct 2008
Once high enough for the rooks not to bother harassing them,
these disagreeable birds squabble amongst themselves!
Love the aerodynamic stress bending the upper bird's primary feathers.
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2013
at 10:41 Image of day on 18 Apr 2013
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2013
at 10:41 Image of day on 18 Apr 2013
Further along our sequence the Buzzards' plummet to earth started to
include some power lines (well out of the crop we show) which let
us show the rate of drop (but not enough info to get the
left-right positions correct). These are spaced at about 140mS
intervals and the interaction stopped as they reached about 10
metres up.
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Ref: 20130418_df1_20130313_1041_347-350 2 buzzards squabbling in flight 29-32 of 38 (vertically accurate montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 03 May 2014
at 11:00 Image of day on 30 Jun 2014
A thermal had these 2 buzzards climbing, but before they disappeared
to specks they came close enough for this little talons-out skirmish.
It took them perhaps a minute to regain the height that they lost!
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Ref: 20140630_df2_20140503_1100_213-217 2 buzzards squabbling while climbing in same thermal 1-5 of 5 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2018
at 07:09 Image of day on 05 Nov 2018
Only later when counting the Canada Geese for the file title did we notice that one of the
birds (second from the left) was in fact a Barnacle Goose.
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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:27 Image of day on 20 May 2017
As the pair of Canada Geese flew away their overlapping wings made some
interesting patterns that we have tried to turn into an interesting 'design'.
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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:20 Image of day on 20 May 2017
3 Canada Geese circled past before turning into the wind to land in or by a lake by the brook.
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Image Taken on 02 Apr 2017
at 07:27 Image of day on 20 May 2017
A Pair of Canada Geese make a Flyby before disappearing into the distance.
Accurately spaced at about 7 fps
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Image Taken on 13 Sep 2019
at 06:48 Image of day on 03 Nov 2019
Groups of 10 or 15 Canada Geese, flying over in the early morning, has
progressed to this group of about 60, seen here against the morning sky.
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Image Taken on 13 Sep 2019
at 06:49 Image of day on 03 Nov 2019
A minute later the Canada Geese have formed into a long skein for their couple of minutes
or so journey west.
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Ref: 20191103_df3_20190913_0649_128 60 canada geese in flight to south(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Sep 2014
at 07:05 Image of day on 10 Dec 2014
We could have 'erased' the one bird breaking the symmetry of this
Vegetarian society 'V' shape, but think the shape is lovely
anyway. Birds fly in these formations to use the wake of the bird
in front and to one side to get a 'tow'. At the moment all the
geese fly off to the North East rather than to the local lakes.
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Ref: 20141210_df2_20140928_0705_387 30 canada geese in v-shaped skein at dawn (crop 1)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Sep 2014
at 07:05 Image of day on 10 Dec 2014
When an image is overexposed and 'burnt out' we often make a
negative of it as part of the procedure for correcting the
highlights (which become lowlights where you can use gamma
correction to selectively correct it). But as the negative
appeared on the screen we both went 'oooo' and thought you might
also enjoy the purity.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:46 Image of day on 17 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131117_df1_20130915_0646_107 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:47 Image of day on 17 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131117_df1_20130915_0647_149 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 06:48 Image of day on 16 Nov 2013
On a quiet morning around dawn we saw about 1000 Canada Geese in
the distance and overhead. Unexpectedly we did not hear their
strident calls in flight - only from the distant fields as they set off.
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Ref: 20131116_df1_20130915_0648_197 canada geese skeins at dawn (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
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