I mean, I guess it’s a jackdaw at a very strange angle, but I can’t make sense of it!

Reading, UK, Canon R6 + RF800mm

    • teft
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      722 days ago

      The new term is UAP. It stands for unidentified aerial potato.

  • KevinFRKOP
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    1122 days ago

    Perhaps a proper Kite photo to compensate, possibly even the same bird.

    • KevinFRKOP
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      221 days ago

      As I understand it from reference books, those live in Egypt or points south or perhaps the China Seas, and dine on Elephants, so I rather dismissed that breed as a candidate!

  • @[email protected]
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    22 days ago

    I had to look at it quite a while, but now im pretty sure the rock is just perfectly facing away from the camera. Legs facing backwards and the wings pulled completely back ready for the next swing. Maybe there is some movement distortion but would be odd at that speed.

    • KevinFRKOP
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      222 days ago

      You a quite probably right, given what I saw of the little drama (the corvids and the kites were squabbling all through the walk - alas I didn’t seen enough of a mixed group of jackdaws and crows mobbing a kite to photo it), but the photo in isolation just had me foxed.

      1/1250s speed, and stabilizer on, so I doubt movement distortion, but worth the question.