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[ISv]

Since Alan encourage me - two more: note the white tail feathers! Only the central two are elongated into long red streamers! On the last photo from my previous post the bird has only one streamer - they are molting like any other feathers, new one will grow there to make them two!
And I included the second photo not only because of the white tail and the red streamers: you can see the "great Bokeh " the 500mm PF can produce in some circumstances...

 

[docsmith]

I finished going through Sunday's images from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and the third (closest) Short Eared Owl. Here are a few more I liked.

 

[Del Paso]

I finished going through Sunday's images from Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and the third (closest) Short Eared Owl. Here are a few more I liked.
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Beautiful images, thanks!

 

[Click]

Beautiful shots!

 

[Nemorino]

R5 + RF100-500L @ 1/250s
+1.4TC

and +2.0TC

 

[docsmith]

@ Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport MA last weekend. I've seen this before, but we found some seagulls working the marshes to find mussels, then dropping the mussels from a height to crack them open for lunch.

A mussel pulled from the marsh.


Carry the mussel up.




Drop the mussel




...and watch it fall...



...and go get lunch...


I like to wonder how many eons this ritual has been taking place.

 

[Click]

Really nice series. Well done, docsmith.

 

[AlanF]

@ Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport MA last weekend. I've seen this before, but we found some seagulls working the marshes to find mussels, then dropping the mussels from a height to crack them open for lunch.

A mussel pulled from the marsh.
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Carry the mussel up.
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Drop the mussel
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...and watch it fall...

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...and go get lunch...
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I like to wonder how many eons this ritual has been taking place.

Now, that really was fun!

 

[danfaz]

Red-tailed Hawk. Unfortunately, didn't get any good backgrounds, but it was cool was how the R5 was tracking the bird even when it was flying behind the branches. There's more to the sequence, where the bird is even more covered by branches, but it's still in focus.

 

[MSH411]

A Great Blue

 

[AlanF]

Mallards aren't usually on my radar, but quack quack was sufficiently amusing (flying 800mm, landing 550mm, a week later).

 

[docsmith]

A reddish egret flyby.

 

[Click]

Nicely done, docsmith. The lines on the surface of the water give an impression of speed.

 

[docsmith]

Thanks Click. I like the shot for that exact reason.

 

[AlanF]

Marsh Harrier and Red Kite (200-800/R5)

 

[Click]

Very nice series, Alan.

 

[AlanF]

I find this rather restful - Greylags in flight.

 

[Click]

Well done, Alan.

 

[EricN]

Not great, but it's better than usual for me.

 

[AlanF]

A few more from R5 at 800mm in the last couple of days: Blackheaded Gull, Grey Heron, Skylark, and a Red Kite this morning.