Marsh Harrier and BT-Godwits

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Posted by Jeroen Stel on April 21, 2009 at 9:11 AM

Spend the day at the isle of Texel last sunday to prepair my bird photography workshop for next weekend and had a great day with loads of bird activity and good weather.
These BT-Godwits where not too happy about the Marsh Harrier flyig by and started to chase him off.

I have some more images from my visit to Texel on my weblog see:
http://jeroenstel.blogspot.com/

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

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Posted by Craig Jones on April 21, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Nice 'action' photo jeroen, lovely colours in the birds made by the lovely blue sky, well done

P.s just been to view your texel photo's on your site and they are beautiful, love the avocet photo's!!!

Posted by Barrie Courtenay on April 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Unusual image Jeroen,brilliant blue sky and all three birds sharp.....like it

Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on April 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM

Very nice Jeroen.

Phil.

Posted by Dawn Monrose on April 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM

Great action/behaviour image, nice colour and detail too.

Posted by jack chapman on April 21, 2009 at 1:47 PM

great poses and interesting behaviour

Posted by Billy Fairburn on April 21, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Great action shot Jeroen. It does look a bit washed out (on my uncalibrated laptop monitor...!) maybe a little levels adjustment? That could well just be me though!

Billy

Posted by Mark Hamblin on April 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM

Brilliant shot. Superb to see this kind of bird behaviour caught so perfectly.

Posted by John Robinson on April 21, 2009 at 6:52 PM

Good stuff.
I had a great time on Texel some years back.
JR

Posted by Ian Cook on April 22, 2009 at 5:06 AM

Very nice shot Jeroen, interesting to see the lengths birds will go to to protect their territories, specially with the size difference !