Monday, 3 April 2017

Bedfordshire Kites from a Town House Window

Red Kites have been seen regularly above my Bedfordshire town for the last 10 years or so since their re-introduction into the Buckinghamshire Chilterns some 25 years ago.  When I spot them flying or soaring over my central town location, I am never ready and by the time I grab my camera they have normally gone out of view or too far away.
 
However yesterday I spotted one flying close to the house in grey overcast conditions.  Grabbing my camera which fortunately had the telephoto still attached to it, I ran back to the upstairs window, and throw it open, and pointed pressing the shutter button.
 
These are the results with a bit of help from photoshop to brighten the photos up. Whilst I did not have time to check my camera settings, I was relatively lucky to get 4 reasonably in-focus photographs (3 here) out of 11 taken in the 10 seconds that I had before the bird flew away out of view behind a roof. 


 
A bit grainy, but reasonable considering the lack of preparation I had. Maybe next time it will be a brighter day.

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