The Flaminco Dancer

[seaslug]

Wattlebird taking flying insects on the wing.

[Gaz]

Nice timing! all sorts of action going on Greg...you'd have to be happy with that?

I've been trying to do something similar for the past few months with a Willy Wag-tail that visits everyday, but nothing close to this yet.

[P Plates]

Good shot, especially getting the insect as well and aptly named.

[seaslug]

"Nice timing! all sorts of action going on Greg...you'd have to be happy with that?

I've been trying to do something similar for the past few months with a Willy Wag-tail that visits everyday, but nothing close to this yet."

Pretty happy.. no-where near perfect of course, but I had a bit of fun trying to get the shot. Every night there's been an insect hatch around 6pm around a flowering gum outside the front of my house. The birds just go crazy for a little while leaping up out of the tree and off the power wires catching the bugs. It's totally random and you've got no idea where they are going next!

I used a manual focus setting guessing about where the birds might be. Set shutter on 1/1250, ISO 1600, then sighted over the top of the lens barrell and shot on burst. This is the only shot I was prepared to show as I cut bits off the birds or missed in all yhe others!