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Finally was able to get out this morning and get some shots at one of my favorite wetland areas. The sunrise was beautiful with so much bird activity! This was one of my favorite shot of today with all the birds in the air and the solitary Anhinga in the tree top!

After getting a few still shots of this American Bald Eagle and waiting over an hour for it to leave its perch, I gave up and moved on to another area of interest. After I got about a quarter mile away I turned to see if it was still there and just then it took off and flew directly toward me...

I captured this photo at New Smyrna Beach a couple of months ago while with a client who wanted to learn how to better shoot sunrise shots.

Japanese Sparrowhawk - BIF God is good! Follow me on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grr8photography/

Red-wattled Lapwing - BIF God is good! Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grr8photography/

Red-wattled Lapwing - BIF Someone shouted 'incoming...' and I just aim, track and shoot. I am happy with the result :) God is good! Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grr8photography/

Intermediate Egret - BIF God is good! Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grr8photography/

On way to boating lake to join the other 30+ swans.

Trying a new BIF technique - lens on manual focus, pre-focussed on a nearby reed and try to guess when a bird whizzing past might be at the focus point. Lens at about 200mm zoom, unable to use the viewfinder so just aim in the vague direction and hope for the best. My success rate turned out to...

Shot in my garden with a pair nesting in the apple tree

I started trying to catch swallows in flight about three years ago, and nearly concluded it was a fool's errand. A little practice is starting to pay off. f8, 1/2500. ISO 1250

Near Aberystwyth, Kite was taking food from surface f the lake

Proof that magpies can look quite beautiful when the sun catches them just so.

I took this at Poole Park. Trying out my new Canon 7D

I took this a few weeks ago when I was at Land's End. While I was hoping to see Peregrines, this female Kestrel was still a lovely sight, flying relatively close to me as it was hunting (unsuccessfully I might add) for food.

Probably the best Skylark shot I'll ever get!

I had a fantastic day yesterday with Johanna Holldack. We focused on photography of cetaceans and birds in flight. I prefer to take pictures of birds in flight with the mountains in the background far better, but I quite liked the expression and posture of this Griffon flying directly toward us.

I witnessed the whole battle from the beginning. The Osprey worked hard to catch a fish, then the Bald Eagle appeared out of nowhere very quicky, chased the Osprey and forced it to give up the fish. This photo was the last of the sequence, at the moment the fish is free falling, and the Eagle is...

American Robin in-flight. Had to uber crop this one. =D

A Ring-billed Gull coming right at me.

I was shooting for song birds when I heard a plane I mean a Canada Goose landing on a runway. =D

Had my first go at getting some flight shots at the weekend ... I'm rather chuffed with this one!

Pigeon flying at high speed, caught with half body in full focus and the rest a little out of it.