Then she finally took off...and in the right direction for once. This and the following pic were part of the 5-photo, high-burst sequence.
"A Hummingbird's World", Allen's at the Purple Bottlebrush, South Coast Botanic Garden, Palos Verdes, California, April 21 2007.
Short-billed Dowitchers, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA, Sept 10 2006. Taken with the Panasonic Lumix FZ30 fixed-lens digicam with a Red-Dot Sight attached to the flash hot shoe to track birds-in-flight.
Osprey on the Flight Path, Newport Beach Back Bay, July 8 2006.
Flight of the Green Heron, San Diego Creek channel just outside of the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, June 9 2007.
This and the next shot are of a Townsend's Warbler I came across at the South Coast Botanic Garden here on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. It was hopping around in the underbrush and I just patiently waited until it momentarily got into the clear. May 12, 2007.
Osprey on the Flight Path, Newport Beach Back Bay, July 8 2006.
Osprey on the Flight Path, Newport Beach Back Bay, July 8 2006.
Osprey on the Flight Path, Newport Beach Back Bay, July 8 2006.
See photo in original gallery.