Birds in Flight at OBX
What a fabulous time I had birding in the Outer Banks last month.
You know I love the challenge of birds in flight! Here are more of my favorites.
Canada Geese
Brown Pelican
House Sparrow
Belted Kingfishers (Northern Shovelers in background)
Marbled Godwits and Willets
American Wigeons
American Wigeons
Canada Goose
Yellow-rumped Warbler (nicknamed “Butter Butt”)
Tricolored Heron
Tricolored Heron
Willets
Forster’s Tern
Forster’s Tern
Caspian Tern
Caspian Tern
Photos by Donna 
Wow, this set of photos is so beautiful, Donna! I think the Canadian Geese, Wigeons, and Terns are so gorgeous in flight! 🥰❤️
Thank you, John! I agree with you 100%! 😊
Donna, I hope they are thick friends 🙂
Excellent gallery of flying birds! Very lovely shots, Donna. 🙂 👍
Thank you very much, HJ! 😊
Fantastic flight shots Donna, especially the first one. You have some beautiful shore birds. Caspians are always amazing to capture, especially when they lift their wings when standing on the beach, they look like angels, and when they fly they have beautiful tails.
Thank you, Ashley! Off in the distance, there were always many more. A local told me the refuge is filled to the brim with ducks and shorebirds January and February, what a sight it must be! I agree with you on Caspians, they are angelic. 🙂
Brilliant photos Donna! I especially love the Canada Geese, the Heron, the Pelican and the Forster’s Tern with the fish. 😊
Thank you very much, Mike! 😊
Cool angles on the terns.
Thanks, Hans! I love when we capture those angles!
Beautiful pictures! I love how we can see how the American Wigeons hold their feet while flying — such a fascinating perspective. And the Forster’s Tern turning its head towards the camera — fantastic! Not to mention the one with a fish in its mouth. 🙂
Thank you very much, Barbara! I very much enjoy the challenge of photographing flight; you’re right, the angle perspectives captured in flight teaches us so much more about each bird species. 🙂
You’re so skilled Donna! These are amazing photos! I love the first photo of the geese and the heron.
Thank you very much, you are so kind! I truly do love birds in flight and practice all the time. Many don’t make the cut! 😉
awesome! hugs
Thank you, Beth! *hugs*
Nice captures and I’m sure great fun. 👏👏👏👏
Thank you, Ted, you know the fun! 😉
Yep 👍👍👍
You have some great shots here of our feathered friends in flight. The one that stand out is the first image that shows the progression of the flight in the three geese, I also like the first Forster’s tern where you can see it focusing on where it is about to go, the wigeons with their colours, Actually I like them all, good observing and timing in getting the captures.
Thank you for your kind comments, Jane, much appreciated! I get real excited running through my photos on the flight shots, I feel much reward when I score some great ones. 😊
Very nice flight series Donna! Looks like you are having a Great Time there!😊
Thanks, Reed! It was pretty cool timing with the migration passing through. 🙂
Amazing shots Donna! You are swift and skilled with your camera! 😻
Thank you, Sandra! Lots and lots and lots of practicing. 😊
This is a fun collection, Donna, and we never get tired of trying for BIFs. I love your Kingfisher pair with the Shovelers, amazing to see and wow to photograph!
Thank you, Ellen! Kingfishers never want their photos taken, do they? lol The one in the lead has a fish. 😉
No, they do not! And they have the speed to keep it from happening.
Fabulous captures, Donna! The clarity is amazing. Love! ❤
Thank you very much, Eliza! 🥰
I am glad to see that you saw more than one sort of tern as I always think that one good tern deserves another. Sorry!
The first widgeon shot was a cracker.
That was too tempting not to say! 😅 😂 🤣
I apologise again.
😊
Oh what an extravaganza of flying birds, Donna. Fantastic poses and a handsome number of species. Although I really liked each one, my favorite is the Forster’s Tern with a mouthful of fish. Fantastic! Also liked seeing the kingfisher on the left with a fish. And that photo of the single Canada Goose is spectacular, you gave a Canada Goose regalness. Beautiful photo of the American wigeons, the light is superb.
Thank you very much, Jet! 🥰 That was one chubby little fish the FTern had, lol. I enjoyed getting out early in the morning to see what was coming and going against the pretty morning’s blue skies.
Awesome photos. Love the tern carrying a fish in its beak!
Thanks, Liz! Someone was eating good for dinner! 😉
Love the Tern with the fish.
National Geographic, lady!
Someone was eating good with that little chubby fish! Thanks, Vic! 😉
We ate good last night…on a chubby fish. Swordfish from the coast!
Excellent shots, as usual. 😁
Dear Donna these are all great photographs, loved them so much, Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you, Nia, for your kind comments!
Wonderful work! It takes my breath away!
Thank you so much, your comment made me smile wide!!
Oooh… loved the Wigeons in flight, but the Forster’s Tern with bird in bill was utterly delicious! 😉