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[Soukous]

Black headed Gull

[Soukous]

Yellow legged Gull

[Soukous]

Sandwich Tern

 

 

[Soukous]

and another Puffin.

[offshorebirder]

Lovely image @KaingU Lodge.

[Soukous]

African Fish eagle. Chobe River. May 2017

 

 

[Soukous]

Reed Cormorants

Chobe River, Kasane, Botswana

 

 

[Soukous]

African Openbill / Open Billed Stork

 

Okavango Delta

[Soukous]

Yellow Billed Stork

Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana. May 2017

[Peter Connan]

Beautiful pictures Gill @KaingU Lodge and Martin @Soukous!

[offshorebirder]

@COSMIC RHINO asked me to post this photo of Oxpeckers taking flight from a Rhino he saw during a 2017 visit to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.   It is a PDF scan of a photo I converted to JPEG for posting to Safaitalk.

 

Click to see a larger version.

 

 

 

Edited June 28, 2017 by offshorebirder

[Soukous]

White Faced Whistling Ducks

Chobe River, Botswana.

May 2017

[Soukous]

Red Billed Teal

Linyanti Marsh, Botswana. May 2017

[The_Norwegian]

A jay lands on its branch in the first rays of morningsun. 

[offshorebirder]

Black-necked Stilt in flight.  Bulls Island, South Carolina on June 6, 2017.

 

[Soukous]

time for another puffin?

 

Farne Islands, UK, June 2017

 

 

[Soukous]

Glossy Ibis, Linyanti Marsh, Botswana. May 2017

 

 

[Soukous]

Saddle Billed Stork

 

Moremi, Botswana, May 2017

 

 

[offshorebirder]

Very nice photos @Soukous.    And I am very jealous of your travels - Botswana in May and the Farne Islands in June!

[Soukous]

14 hours ago, offshorebirder said:

Very nice photos @Soukous.    And I am very jealous of your travels - Botswana in May and the Farne Islands in June!

 

If I'm honest, I'm jealous of just about everybody else's travels. Sitting at a desk is made much harder by the ability to see that others are travelling. Curse the Internet. Curse Trip Reports.

 

 

[Game Warden]

9 minutes ago, Soukous said:

Sitting at a desk is made much harder by the ability to see that others are travelling.

 

@Soukous Welcome to my life

[Soukous]

Whilst they may make flying look effortless when they are aloft, Saddle Billed Storks are pretty gangly and watching them take off is quite a show.

 

 

[offshorebirder]

Yesterday I drove an hour and a half to enjoy and photograph the annual Kite spectacle near Allendale, South Carolina.  I've posted about it before, so I'll keep it brief and just toss up a couple of photos.

 

Here is a shot I took just after the parent dropped off a large katydid for junior to consume.  The parent is vocalizing to the other youngster, who was bobbing up and down and whistling in an adjacent tree.  

 

 

Here is the parent ferrying a large katydid to one of the fledglings:

 

[Dave Williams]

Not really flight in this sequence! The engine has been turned off as the bird plummets downwards to make the perfect 10 score for the dive!

Gannet diving by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Gannet diving by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Gannet diving by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Gannet diving by Dave Williams, on Flickr

Gannet diving by Dave Williams, on Flickr

[offshorebirder]

Super capture sequence @Dave Williams!