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Super selection of photos and those shoes well you do get Shoebills but sadly they live in Zambia LOL.
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Kathy and Dave
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Flying high, very high, right over me, was a Skylark singing his little heart out on the Manor Farm restoration. Several Skylark breed successfully all parts of the nascent Longwater Road nature reserve - even while restoration was/is on going. This particular Skylark was doing what Skylarks do - try and get as high up as possible and sing as loud as possible. Indeed, after my first half dozen photos, the bird carried on climbing to the point where it was difficult to find in the sky. It was having a singing match (i.e. territorial battle) with some Skylarks on Chandlers farm, over in Hampshire.
Cropping out
The bird was doing flap - flap -glide. You need to picture poor old me. Arched right back, enormous great lens pointing upward. I must have looked a sight to walkers on the path.
This is the flap phase
The bird, as I mentioned earlier, climbed ever higher, and worked its way eastward. I finally managed to pick it up again, just as the blighter was so high up. All remaining photos cropped.
It's just finishing its flap phase and moving to the glide.
...and glide
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A couple of pictures taken when sitting in the garden today.