Picture taken by
"digibinning" with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 and Swarovski 10x42 binoculars
The above
picture
was taken 17th September 2006, onboard a survey / construction vessel
on the Ormen Lange gas field, some 100 km NW of Kristiansund, Norway.
This young bird rested briefly onboard before resuming its journey
south. At the time this was picture was taken it was sharing the
vessel's main crane boom with a young Grey Heron. digiscoping,
digibinning, bird photography
Picture
taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4500, no telephoto lens
The
above picture was of a different Kestrel on 19 September, immediately
after a heavy downpour in increasing winds. I initially flushed this
bird from a meal - it had just polished off a Northern Wheatear - some
wet feathers can be seen still sticking to its talons in the above
photograph. Below is all that was left of the unfortunate Wheatear -
perhaps the same bird with the smashed leg that I had rescued earlier
in the day....
Kestrel's dinner
plate - the remains of a Wheatear
The picture below is of
the Canary Island race of the Kestrel - this bird landed in a tree outside my
hotel room shortly after a hatching of dragonflies. Picture taken with digital SLR and a 400mm telephoto lens.
