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Square-tailed Kite
stoop

Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura)

For Mike across the paddock.

Taken back in 1994, I thought I had a role of 36 mostly of Black Kites, with a few kestrels and a couple of Black Falcon shots (the latter of most excitement to me). It wasn't til I got the film back and checking it out while sitting at a bus stop that I thought this was an odd looking Black Kite. -It was taken in the midst of numerous Black kites and didn't think of it as special when clicking the shutter.

Taken with a Pentax Z-20. My first 'Electric camera' with magical autofocus and a ...motordrive! -After 10 years of trying I started getting shots of the front of birds and not just my usual blurs of fleeing backsides...It seems so ancient now.
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Habitat
Sweeping Plains
Location
Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Date taken
Winter 1994
Scientific name
Lophoictinia isura
Equipment used
Pentax Z-20, Sigma 75-300mm
Hans&Judy Beste
Hi Stoop,

Sounds as if you aren't missing the"good old days" of manual focus,dull Kodachrome or B&W films and one shot at a time.You should have been trying to photograph when I (Hans) started photographing birds in 1954,but we had no vision then of what is possible now.Thanks for posting the oldie !
 
Mike Bouette
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Nice one Stoop. It is a beauty,Thanks.

I will have to keep trying!

I saw one last Wednesday but I can't seem to take pictures with my 7 iron!
 

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