Flying Flicker

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Taken this morning as the flickers were fighting off the starlings.

Nikon D300
Nikon 300 mm F 2.8
ISO 400
1/1600, F4
manual

All comments are appreciated.

[Keith Carver]

Love the wing position and fantail, perfect EXP, lovely BG. Upper mandible looks a little soft but great detail on head and wings. Stunning flight capture, Judy!

[Joe Senzatimore]

This is outstanding. I have tried to get these in flight with no luck. The erratic flight patterns make it very difficult. You did super on this. Congrats.;)

[Alan Murphy]

A fantastic flight shot Judy Lynn. Some selective noise removal on the BG would improve this killer shot.

[Grace Scalzo]

What a great capture, Judy Lynn. So hard to accomplish an image like this one.

[Ofer Levy]

This is great!! Haven't seen many images of a Flicker in flight. Looks like a big crop but still retains nice detail.

[Loukie Viljoen]

Judy the BG seems a bit noisy for a Nikon?:)

[Oscar Vazquez-Ortiz]

Very sharp! Congrats!

[Alfred Forns]

Sure was fun Judy !! Glad you came up with a good one !!! Love it !!

[Danny Laredo]

Great capture Judy. Love the flight pose. BG seems a touch noisy on my screen.

[A_Maddah]

Hi Judy
beautiful shot. pretty colorsI like the wing position and the eye contact.I agree with NR.
TFS

Asad

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Judy, lovely colours and detail, and I like the flight angle. I couldnt resist doing some NR on the BG. Hope you dont mind.

[arash_hazeghi]

Tough shot to get Judy and sharp as tact. Really congrats on this one, Agree with Alan about selective NR but excellent and perfect light too.

[denise ippolito]

Judy, Beautiful pose and details. Just some NR as noted. Lovely capture!:)

[Paul Lagasi]

I often wonder why they called them Yellow-shafted Flickers, not hard to tell why, from this image. Nice capture...probably was a large crop..but lovely image with wings and tail open like that..TFS

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Hi Stuart, Many thanks for taking the time to do a little NR. Great results and again thanks.

Best regards
judylynn

[vikrant kane]

Love the wing position and fantail
love the repost

[Jim Fenton]

Judy...

I won't comment except to say...stunning :)

[allanrube]

Judy - like it a lot. All those little birds are hard to capture in flight. You did a great job and the colorful flicker did its part.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Judy, what a nice capture. Beautiful light and details. Thx for sharing. One heck of a shot.

[Rich Steel]

Hi Judy

Those Flickers are amazing looking birds and if they are like our woodpeckers probably very difficult to photogrph in flight. A really good flight pose with the wings and tail fully spread and I like the way you have captured the light coming through the feathers. The only issue with background noise has been pointed out and dealt with well in Stuart's repost.

Cheers

Rich

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Lovely image Judy! Interesting to see no wing blur at a ss of 1/1600. Well done!:)

[Myer Bornstein]

The only thing I can say since all has been said that it is a wonderful picture

[Roman Kurywczak]

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!!! Killer pose and the NR is the final touch!

[Sid Garige]

Exceptional image Judy. Never seen a flicker like this.

[Stephen Stephen]

Beautiful images of this female inflight Judy. The yellow really shows this bird off.