bif Archives - Craig Rogers Photography

Short Eared Owls

6th March 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

This morning I was again out well before first light in hope that the Short Eared Owls would co-operate.

Over the last few trips, I’ve fired off around 20 shots, this morning I’ve almost 900 shots to go through and it’ll take a while to go through them all.

It was an amazing sighting this morning with both Owls flying around looking for food. In fact, there may have been 3 different Owls, but that’s not confirmed. I also heard 2 Little Owls calling to each other too.

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Short Eared Owl — In Flight – D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 with TC-14III @ 700mm, f/5.6, ISO1000, 1/1000sec – {Flickr Link}

Shortie In Flight (plus Video footage)

27th February 20169th October 2017Craig Rogers

I decided to have another look through some of my rejected photos of the Short Eared Owls I’ve recently been getting up early for. None of them will make my Flickr Album but even though this shot is both a bit boring (just a side on-shot) and quality isn’t great, I love the sunrise colours of the whole scene so thought I’d share.

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In Flight - D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 with TC-14III @ 700mm, f/5.6, ISO1600, 1/1000sec — In Flight – D810, AF-S 500mm f/4 with TC-14III @ 700mm, f/5.6, ISO1600, 1/1000sec

Whilst waiting for the sun to come up I thought I’d shoot some film of one of the Owls flying as it was too dark for photos. However, there were a lot of Crows flying around and the Owl would not leave the tree in fear of being mobbed. As the video shows, he was keeping a keen eye on it’s surroundings.

{Remember to watch in HD if possible}

Housemartin in Flight

30th August 20159th October 2017Craig Rogers

Anyone who has tried photographing Housemartins, Swallows and Swifts in flight will know how difficult they are to photograph. They change direction so quickly and are very hard to predict.

So you can imagine how chuffed I was to capture this one just about to return to the one of the nest on the back of the house.

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Housemartin on final approach – D810, AF-S 300mm f/2.8 @ 300mm, f/5.6, ISO1000, 1/1250sec – {Flickr Link}