Gulls in Flight

Wonderful collage Keith.

Thank you kind sir!

Watch out for your chips. ;-)))

Ha, ha............no chip shops in this location!

Deine tollen Flugaufnahmen sind dir richtig schön gelungen lieber Keith,eine sehr schöne Collage hast du zusammen gestellt :))

Wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

Thank you very much Güni.............I'm really pleased you like this collage.

Fliegende Vögel sind eine besondere Herausforderung für uns Fotografen. Ich muss anerkennen, dass du sehr gute Flufszenen eingefangen hast, Keith!

Thanks Wilhelm...............I'm always practising!

To see them captured in flight is actually beautiful Keith. A lovely collage. I've got a photo of the same black headed gulls that I will upload tomorrow.
All the best and have a good new week.

Glad you like them Rosa.............many thanks.

Looking forward to seeing your photos. Have a good week yourself.

Beautifully collage! They are really rascals over here, they will attack if you have a snack in your hand...

Thank you so much Wierd............glad you like it.

I think gulls are the same the world over :-))

Very well taken, Keith! Excellent series!

Many thanks Stephan.............glad you like them.

most beautiful all 4 lov ethe upper left the most!

Thank you so much Annemarie.

How elegant they're, Keith!

Glad you think so Judite.

Excellent series of in-flight images Keith, They are I assume common gulls which must be a little more refined than the dreaded Herring Gulls that we are plagued with,
I do have to agree with Judite when she says they look elegant, the bottom left image is a good example.

These are all black-headed gulls Roger...........in their winter plumage. They can be very greedy but tend not to get aggressive like Herring Gulls. They fight amongst themselves usually.

Glad you like this little collection.............they're always good fun to watch and photograph.

mooi allemaal keith

Glad you think so Fred............many thanks.

Brilliant captures of these birds in flight. Do you put your camera on multi-shots to find the best angle of the birds as they fly? As I don't get out, I don't often see many birds taking off like this, so when the weather gets warmer, I won't mind sitting out and try and capture the magpies and wood pigeons as they flit among my trees.

Thanks Jenny........glad you like this little collection.

To capture birds in flight I normally set my camera to continuous auto-focus, with a high shutter speed and shoot in sequential shooting (low), which gives me around 18 frames per second. I don't generally use more fps as it doesn't give the auto focus time to catch up!

...and 4 different gull's expressions !

Indeed...........they're a very diverse crowd down here :-)

An excellent collage, different stages of movement and as Isabel says different expressions:-)

Thanks Gudrun...........as always you're very kind.

Magnifique. Trés belle étude "aéronautique"

I'm pleased you like this little collection Jean Paul. Thanks for your kind comment.

Superbe !!

Thank you very much Thérèse...........good of you to drop in.

Ob ich wohl auch so elegant fliegen könnte? Vor allem scheinen sie immer freundlich zu blicken :)
Tolles Quartett...bei uns auf dem Land sind sie leider sehr selten... :)