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Wings on Wednesday -
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious of photographing birds.

Indian Black Kite at rest.

I have been forced to the archives of late, but am interested that they have not downloaded well... this shot was a whole lot better when originally posted.

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Wings on Wednesday -
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious of photographing birds.

Indian Black Kite in flight.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Showing how the Black Kite is anything but.

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Wings on Wednesday - 
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

 One of my best shots of the Indian Black Kite.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Rebuttal.  Milvus Migrans Govinda - the Indian Black Kite variant which is actually a golden brown.  Jan/Feb are the 'frisky' months. This female is protecting herself by resting by an 'armed guard'!  the male had several attempts but then thought better of it.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Black Kite

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

A slightly more successful Black Kite in Flight...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Archives: Mumbai, Black Kite would NOT sit still...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Archive stock... from 2013. Black Kite over Mumbai.

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Welcome to YAMster's MAYhem month!!!

Partly due to lack of new stock, but also due to an exceptionally demanding April, needed a break. The month of May is coming to you with archive images which have been revamped. 

Wings on Wednesday...watercoloured. (Black Kite, Mumbai)

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Black Kite. It was the Nik's early attempts and my dodgy hands which managed this.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Recycling.

Black Kite over Mumbai.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

"I hope you love birds too.  It is economical.  Saves going to Heaven..." 

(Emily Dickinson)

Black Kite in a bright Mumbai sky.  Taken with the 'Nik' on sports mode and zoomed 20x optical.

Do you have a post with birds to share?

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Reminding myself of hotter, headier days...  A Black Kite in the early morning sun of Mumbai.

Taken with the 'Nik' on sports mode and lens extended 15x optical zoom.

Now, for those with ornithological offerings, please feel free to link up!

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Another from the Indian annals...a black kite eyes up breakfast.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and lens extended 5x optical.

Please do link up with your own posts with birds (or at least wings-related) photography.  Thanks for flying by!!

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Wings on Wednesday - YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious of photographing birds.

Black Kite flying into sunset - as I will be doing as I land into Heathrow...

Taken with the 'Nik' on sports mode and lens extended 16x optical.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

This was one of the very first shots I took when trying out the new Nikon L810...the 'Nik'.

Had it on auto function and the lens was stretched to the full 26x optical and 4x digital.  A little blurry and overexposed, but considering this black kite was resting on a tree approximately one kilometer distant, I was well pleased!

Thanks to Squirrel Queen for linking up last week... a reminder that I will be putting in the formal linky gain once have relocated to Scotland; but for time being anyone who wishes can do so anyway!!

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The Tuesday Tease

"Drat - a girl can't even tidy the rear feathers without that YAMarazzi sticking her lens in..."


Do you have an insight to the thoughts of this bird?




This Black Kite was way up high - I climbed 7 flights of stairs and put the 'Nik' on sports mode with 15x zoom in order to capture this shot.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Okay here it is, the Ultimate Black Kite Shot!!! We had three, two and now one.  I'll be hard pressed to get better than this now.  It is my parting WoW for India.  Of course, there is a full stock of Indian bird photos still to use, but they will be posted in absentia of the country of origin. (In case you are unfamiliar with the why read here.)

Why not link up with your own wings photos?

Taken with the 'Nik' on manual 200ISO and zoomed to 5x optical.

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Hari Om everyone!  Welcome to the 'Wings on Wednesday', a mid-week spot for those folks who have 'wings' piccies!  

This is YAM's very own bird specific theme, so please, if you do link up, do keep to the subject - unless it is really inventive and you win me over...  plead your case well!!!

Even if you never tried photographing a bird before, give it a go!  Let's have fun and your comments and link-backs will also be appreciated.

This linky will remain open until midnight Friday, Mumbai time. 

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Am now on my last three Wednesdays before leaving India. Am doing a little 'backwards sequence' so as to say goodbye to these shores on a top-note...  

There will be many more pictures from here which have been worth the keeping, but here are a few to delight.  

Ready?  Okay.  THREE...

Black Kite takes a dive - look out snake!  Taken with the 'Nik' on sports auto and 5x zoom.

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Hari Om everyone!  Welcome to the 'Wings on Wednesday', a mid-week spot for those folks who have 'wings' piccies!  

This is YAM's very own bird specific theme, so please, if you do link up, do keep to the subject - unless it is really inventive and you win me over...  plead your case well!!!

Even if you never tried photographing a bird ever before, give it a go!  Let's have fun and your comments and link-backs will also be appreciated.

This linky will remain open until midnight Friday, Mumbai time.