Wild Birds of Europe

Sorry for the quality of this shot, very poor resolution due to heavy crop but I found it fascinating to watch these two raptors engaging in areal combat over a good 15 minutes or so. The smaller raptor is a Booted Eagle and the larger raptor I believe is a common Buzzard but I'm not sure.

Egyptian geese with gooselings piling up (guess against cold and/ or cold wind)

The gooselings:

Northern lapwings:

And some more lapwings:

Grey heron

Photo from Weja's gallery.

pcs wrote in post #19525283
Let's hope in a few weeks you get a lot more activity when they are feeding the young. Just work hard for a few weeks and than take time off
These are very nice!

Thanks Patrick Even when feeding young they are very irregular, leaving the nest for hours or sometimes even days. Swift chicks are remarkable in that they can slow themselves down to be able to survive for extended periods with no food as their parents sometimes have to follow the good weather to find food, the next regular chances will come when the birds looking for future nest sites and the present birds form the largest screaming parties towards the end of the season.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19524757
Ha! I just gave an update in the thread I started about my Mac problems just now. Because it doesn't work after all. I also now know why colours look so weird.

I need a new Mac.

Oh dear!

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #19525073
That is one popular nest! Great series of shots, Sid. Swifts look so much better with greens in the background!

Thanks Levina, the new pair did keep on checking where the starlings were and as soon as they left.......

The greens are nice but strangely I like some of the ones with buildings as backgrounds too, my front door, a bedroom window, roofs and walls.......

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A juvenile starling

A shelduck and a Canadian goose in flight:

A common redshank:

And 2 more of the the redshank:

pcs wrote in post #19525325
Ah, for me culling in DPP is fast(switching image and one click to 100% zoom is instant), just the processing is slow. Did you set NR/sharpening to zero in preferences? Using camera settings slows it down considerably.

Yes. I always have NR and sharpening turned off, in Lightroom as well, as I like to do that selectively.

jan1977 wrote in post #19525396
Hanging out with mom and dad

I really like that first shot with the whole family.

You've been busy, Jan. All really nice shots!