We get lots of Gamble's Quail in our yard, and I've gotten lots of nice portraits over the years. I've always wanted to get a decent flight shot, but opportunities are few and far between. The birds tend to walk to our house and jump up on the yard wall rather than fly in to the yard wall. The birds were hungry yesterday afternoon but things didn't get busy until after we'd lost the good light. I decided to grab my camera and try to capture some flight frames. This was my best frame of the afternoon.
Canon 1DX2, 300 mm, f/2.8, 1/2000, ISO 4000, manual exposure, hand held