Winged Wednesday 10/23/2019

[Eric Gofreed]

As befitting a “Winged Wednesday, “I have selected a hummingbird with a winged hitchhiker. The hummingbird is a male White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) and the hitchhiker is a bee.

I took this photographed two weeks ago at Tandayapa Bird lodge in the beautiful Andean Cloudforest in Northwest Ecuador.

I am off to my son’s wedding Late Tuesday night. Regrettably, I won’t be able to respond to your photographs in a timely manner. However, I will eventually respond to everyone’s photographs. Thanks for posting your winged photographs.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice capture Eric - and a good reminder that hummingbirds do eat insects.

I thought I was out of bird shots and then it hit me - sea gulls are birds and boy do I have a lot of shots with them present

This is from the beach at Heceta Head near Florence Oregon on a rather blustery day. The dominant local species is the Western Gull although their markings aren't readily visible in this shot:

 

[Jim Sanderson]

Gannets...

 

[Douglas Sherman]

As befitting a “Winged Wednesday, “I have selected a hummingbird with a winged hitchhiker. The hummingbird is a male White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) and the hitchhiker is a bee.

I took this photographed two weeks ago at Tandayapa Bird lodge in the beautiful Andean Cloudforest in Northwest Ecuador.

I am off to my son’s wedding Late Tuesday night. Regrettably, I won’t be able to respond to your photographs in a timely manner. However, I will eventually respond to everyone’s photographs. Thanks for posting your winged photographs.



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Another spectacular image, Eric.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

This is a Barnacle Goose from a wildlife preserve in Nova Scotia. These birds nest on cliffs in Greenland and when the chicks leave the nest they must navigate hundreds of feet through the air, before they can fly, bouncing off rock ledges along the way, in order to survive to adulthood. As you might have guessed not all of them survive. Here is a video showing the process.
https://aeon.co/videos/the-only-way-to-survive-for-newborn-barnacle-geese-is-to-dive-off-a-cliff

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for starting this Eric, and a fantastic hummingbird image.

How about a group of Sandhills at brunch?

 

[ckcarr]

Mountain Bluebird.

 

[Littlefield]

Kingfishers chase.
Don

 

[JimFox]

As befitting a “Winged Wednesday, “I have selected a hummingbird with a winged hitchhiker. The hummingbird is a male White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) and the hitchhiker is a bee.

I took this photographed two weeks ago at Tandayapa Bird lodge in the beautiful Andean Cloudforest in Northwest Ecuador.

I am off to my son’s wedding Late Tuesday night. Regrettably, I won’t be able to respond to your photographs in a timely manner. However, I will eventually respond to everyone’s photographs. Thanks for posting your winged photographs.



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This is so amazing! It's like a miracle of a shot. 1 in 100,000 even.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Gannets...

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Awesome series, Jim

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Kingfishers chase.
Don

This is great! I don't have a good photo of a belted kingfisher

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Mountain Bluebird.

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superb photography,

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Nice capture Eric - and a good reminder that hummingbirds do eat insects.

I thought I was out of bird shots and then it hit me - sea gulls are birds and boy do I have a lot of shots with them present

This is from the beach at Heceta Head near Florence Oregon on a rather blustery day. The dominant local species is the Western Gull although their markings aren't readily visible in this shot:

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Another spectacular image, Eric.

WOW zappa WOW WOW