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Mississippi Kite

Posted by Nate Chappell on Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:45 pm

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This species lives in my neighborhood, strangely it's the only place that I have seen them. So I spent a little time photographing them this summer. They do a lot of hawking of insects on the wing. I captured this one as it came off a telephone wire, it does have a bug in the beak but not easy to see here. I liked this image partially because you can see the red in each of the wingtips.

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by RLK on Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:20 pm

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Great flight shot and detail. It would have been nice if the back wing was in a better position so that the head (and beak in particular) was outlined by the sky but still a strong image.
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by sirianul on Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:22 pm

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Nice picture.
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by Axel Hildebrandt on Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:01 am

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Great find and pose, I'd love to see this species sometime.

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by Juan Carlos Vindas on Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:57 pm

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Very cool shot of this bird!

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