More Bird Fight !!!

[Alfred Forns]

From the recent rumble at Green Cay Flicker and Starling going at it !!! Flickers put up a good fight but way many starlings, outcome was obvious. Sorry to see them evicted.

Comments welcome and much appreciated

Canon 7D
500 f4.0 IS
f 4.0 1/800 sec
ISO 1000
Manual exp

[Randy Stout]

Alfred:

Great story telling with this image. Really looks like the starling has him by the bill.

The right wing on the trunk looks a bit odd, perhaps just motion blur, but the image is strong enough to stand on its own!

I not sure I would argue with a bird with the pecking power of a flicker. It could be lethal if he got a couple of good shots in.

Cheers

Randy

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Randy The flicker did get some blows to the starlings head ... looked solid !! Also you could see lots of feathers flying through the air !! .. I'm sure the wing is motion blur those guys were fast :)

[Nancy A Elwood]

Al WOW!!! You and Fabs sure captured some terrific action and captured it soooo well!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

This looks like part 2 after the image Fabs posted. Great capture of this interaction, this little starling looks pretty determined. I guess he was good in his self defense course. :)

[Lana Hays]

Wow, Alfred. I haven't seen that much fighting action since I left my teaching job in public school. Too bad the starlings didn't lose the battle. Great timing getting the foot around the beak. Ouch!!!

[John Chardine]

I think I recognise this action Al! Absolutely outstanding capture of what happened. I know who I'm rooting for by the way! I particularly like the flared wings of the flicker.

[Harshad Barve]

This is terrific action shot Alfred
TFS

[Troy Lim]

Al, you got the best shot of the whole series I have seen so far from the ones posted on here. The angle and showing both birds. Well done.

[Fabs Forns]

Way to go, you really nailed the action here.

[Charles Glatzer]

Love it!!
The combination of sharp detail and motion blur puts this way over the top of static images.

Sometimes less can be more ;) ...shutter speed.

Best,

Chas

[RAM MALLYA]

lovely action captured

[Markus Jais]

Awesome action. The Starling grabbing the woodpeckers head is awesome. I like the motion blur in the wings.

Markus

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent action, looks like a real wrestling match, well done!!!

[Kiran Poonacha]

great freeze this, nice colours and action.. the wing blur adds well here..

[Ofer Levy]

WOW !! Pretty amazing behaviour captured!!!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Ouch! Really well captured, like the action but like the wingspread a lot too.

[James Salywoda]

Awesome bit of action captured Al the framing from the wings on the Flicker reallly focus my attention to what is captured in the image this is excellent.:)

[Stephen Stephen]

Al great capture here. This really tells the story of the conflict that you Fabs and Judy witnessed. Too bad that the flicker pair lost.

[Harold Davis]

that's the starling nose hold. a big time secret in the bird world!!:D it is a shame they won the battle. this is one cool image, al!! an award winner for sure!!

[Rick Moran]

Great aggressive behaviour capture. Nice colours and action. Like it alot.