I thought I would start a new thread dedicated to our beautiful Birds of Prey and hope you will share all your fabulous pics of them aswell ......
Please feel free to add your pics
I will kick it off with one of my regulars...Jock the Sprawk
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
Three Buzzards were flying over our house. They were not a happy family. It appeared to be a couple fighting off an interloper intruding on their territory. The tussle went on for several minutes, before the interloper was driven off.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Lot to learn
Shot on a golf course of all things, during our morning walk earlier in spring. Trimmed from a much larger video shot with my Lumix FZ72 bridge camera. Bird was some distance away, requiring a fair bit of zoom, resulting in much shaky filming. This segment had least amount of shaking.
I did creep closer to the bird, filming as I went, which simply added even more shake. This segment was when I finally stopped and stood still. 20 seconds later, the Sparrowhawk decided it had had enough of me, and flew off
I get the feeling that YouTube compresses images. My original video is far clearer, with much detail. I shall have to investigate YouTube to see if there is a setting to prevent such aggressive compression. Though it does make streaming quicker.