Holub's Golden Weaver at nest

From Little Vumbura, Botswana in 2018. We were shooting out of the truck, and I was trying to get a shot of him flying away from his nest, thus I left a lot of room at the bottom. I wish I had just a sliver more on top. It was tough to time his takeoff, and when he did takeoff he went in a flash, so I got a lot of tail-feather shots. I did manage one flight shot, but given this month's theme I thought I post this one.

D500, Sigma 150-600C @ 550mm, ISO 3200, 1/2500s @ f/6.3 manual.

Here he is leaving the nest.

Neat bird with a neat nest. Like the framing. The flight frame is alright. Im sure it's very hard to get these in flight. Nice the bird was in the shade.

I really like the composition of the first one Bill. A cute bird...you did well to get the in flight shot too! TFS

Like the composition. Nice contrast of the bird to the background..

Thanks for your comments John, Paul and Jack.