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airial piracy

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Posted by Mike Smith on May 12, 2008 at 3:49 AM
airial piracy
Olympus E-3, 150mm F2 plus 1.4 tc, hand held, 1/3200s at F5.6 ISO400 EV+1, C-AF

One from Saturday. (and it is not a composite image)

One of the topics of conversation in the hide was the colour wing tags. Apparently they are different at the various release sites, yellow is for my local Chilterns ringed birds and quite a few youngsters at Gigrin had yellow tags - just shows how far these birds move about now.

Mike
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on May 12, 2008 at 4:25 AM
This is very nice Mike. The cloud bank in the background gives this shot an 'epic' feeling, looks as though it were taken at high altitude!

Greg
Posted by Alan Woolnough on May 12, 2008 at 5:56 AM
Well caught Mike..............agree with Greg's views!

Alan
Posted by Paul Thomas on May 12, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Nice shot Mike. Why swop down for your own food when you can nick someone elses. It's a pity none of got a shot of the pair that locked talons.

:toast:

Paul
Posted by Paul Inglis on May 12, 2008 at 8:07 AM
Hi Mike,

Lovely flight capture!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by eric weight on May 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Top job Mike. There were two shots I would have killed for there on saturday. The locked talons and the one catching another bird's dropped meal in mid-air.
:toast: :toast: Eric
Posted by Laurie Braman on May 12, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Amazing shot--great steady handheld capture.

Laurie :razz:
Posted by Drew Mellowship on May 12, 2008 at 1:50 PM
I love birds of prey and to get a shot or even chance in my area would be welcome.

Great capture !

Drew :smile:
Posted by Magnus Hird on May 14, 2008 at 3:33 AM
Great in-flight action :smile: