White-faced Ibis On Landing Approach
With the Canon R5 I’m getting significantly more grab shots of birds in flight than I used to. (3 photos)
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White-faced Ibis Playing Peekaboo In Flight
A Squadron Of White-faced Ibises Flying Low Over The Great Salt Lake
Groups of birds in flight are hard to photograph well but I like the way this one turned out.
White-faced Ibises Fighting
White-faced Ibis Flight And Pre-landing Series
Getting focus lock on a bird flying at a less than ideal angle can pay dividends when it suddenly performs an interesting flight maneuver.
White-faced Ibis Banking And Flaring In Flight Prior To Landing
And a wolverine was seen, photographed and videotaped on Antelope Island two days ago. No shit!
White-faced Ibis On Landing Approach
White-faced Ibis Landing Series
Recently I posted a single photo of a landing White-faced Ibis. Below is the entire six image series.
My New Favorite White-faced Ibis Flight Shot
Everything isn’t perfect here but the more I look at this image the more it grabs me.
Sunbathing White-faced Ibis
When common birds perform uncommon behaviors it catches my eye. And hopefully my lens. This was a behavior completely new to me for this species.
Fighting White-faced Ibises (11 images)
Generally the White-faced Ibis is non-aggressive as it feeds in large groups of its own kind. Even when they accidentally bump into each other there is usually no aggressive response. But there are exceptions…
An Amazingly Resilient One-legged Ibis
Last week I came across this one-legged White-faced Ibis at Farmingtom Bay. Normally, these birds feed by slowly wading through the water and locating their invertebrate prey by tactile probing of the muddy substrate. Their long, recurved and extremely sensitive bill is an ideal tool for this purpose. But this bird, of course, is unable to wade. So it would stand in one spot for a few seconds while feeding and then jump to the next spot with great effort. The problem it had with this method was maintaining balance as it was landing in the new spot, since it couldn’t put down the missing leg for support. So, as it landed it would use that long bill as a sort of substitute for the missing leg and foot, thus gaining an additional balancing and support point in the mud. Here it has just regained balance and is closing its wings and pulling its long bill off of the mud. Perhaps what the bird was doing can be better visualised from this one photo, where you can tell from the turbulence around the right leg that the ibis has just landed in this spot a split second before and that it is using its long bill to brace itself in order to regain balance. And here I caught the ibis just as it was “landing” on a new feeding spot – the water is actually fairly deep here. I hope this post isn’t seen as much…
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White-faced Ibis Playing Peekaboo In Flight
A Squadron Of White-faced Ibises Flying Low Over The Great Salt Lake
Groups of birds in flight are hard to photograph well but I like the way this one turned out.
White-faced Ibises Fighting
White-faced Ibis Flight And Pre-landing Series
Getting focus lock on a bird flying at a less than ideal angle can pay dividends when it suddenly performs an interesting flight maneuver.
White-faced Ibis Banking And Flaring In Flight Prior To Landing
And a wolverine was seen, photographed and videotaped on Antelope Island two days ago. No shit!
White-faced Ibis On Landing Approach
White-faced Ibis Landing Series
Recently I posted a single photo of a landing White-faced Ibis. Below is the entire six image series.
My New Favorite White-faced Ibis Flight Shot
Everything isn’t perfect here but the more I look at this image the more it grabs me.
Sunbathing White-faced Ibis
When common birds perform uncommon behaviors it catches my eye. And hopefully my lens. This was a behavior completely new to me for this species.
Fighting White-faced Ibises (11 images)
Generally the White-faced Ibis is non-aggressive as it feeds in large groups of its own kind. Even when they accidentally bump into each other there is usually no aggressive response. But there are exceptions…
An Amazingly Resilient One-legged Ibis
Last week I came across this one-legged White-faced Ibis at Farmingtom Bay. Normally, these birds feed by slowly wading through the water and locating their invertebrate prey by tactile probing of the muddy substrate. Their long, recurved and extremely sensitive bill is an ideal tool for this purpose. But this bird, of course, is unable to wade. So it would stand in one spot for a few seconds while feeding and then jump to the next spot with great effort. The problem it had with this method was maintaining balance as it was landing in the new spot, since it couldn’t put down the missing leg for support. So, as it landed it would use that long bill as a sort of substitute for the missing leg and foot, thus gaining an additional balancing and support point in the mud. Here it has just regained balance and is closing its wings and pulling its long bill off of the mud. Perhaps what the bird was doing can be better visualised from this one photo, where you can tell from the turbulence around the right leg that the ibis has just landed in this spot a split second before and that it is using its long bill to brace itself in order to regain balance. And here I caught the ibis just as it was “landing” on a new feeding spot – the water is actually fairly deep here. I hope this post isn’t seen as much…