{"id":12867,"date":"2015-03-09T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2015-03-09T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:12:38","slug":"flying-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12867","title":{"rendered":"Flying raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of detailed pictures of birds show them as stationary:\u00a0perched in a tree, standing on ground, floating on water. Less often does one see a detailed picture of a bird in flight. This might seem odd given that the defining characteristic\u00a0of (local) birds is flight. If it is a bird, it flies. Why not show this?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,\u00a0getting such a shot is not easy. Merely framing a rapidly moving bird in the viewfinder is the initial problem. Then getting it in focus and freezing the motion of its wings compounds the difficulty. The problem is similar (maybe harder) than that faced by sports photographers.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my bird-shooting friends have greater success than I do, but I continue to work at the skill. Here are four of my practice shots of flying raptors from last week.<\/p>\n<p>A male Kestrel flies by.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12868\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kestrel150305s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Red-tailed Hawk has dived from a perch.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12868\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redtailedhawk150305as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Rough-legged Hawk wings across the sky.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12870\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/roughleggedhawk150305bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plumage of this\u00a0sub-adult Bald Eagle indicates that it was\u00a0hatched in 2011.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12869\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/eagle150305as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The vast majority of detailed pictures of birds show them as stationary:\u00a0perched in a tree, standing on ground, floating on water. Less often does one see a detailed picture of a bird in flight. This might seem odd given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}