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Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Oystercatchers playing chicken in the surf.

1. About to launch

2. With snack

3. Crashing wave in the background

4. Bathtime in the tidepools

5. Another escaping the surf shot

6. Running from the surf

7. More flight

8. Hopping away with a mussel

9. More flight

10. Cracking open a mussel

11. Stretching the wings out

12. Reaching for the landing

13. One more hasty escape shot

Thanks for viewing.

Oct 29, 2023 at 09:47 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Superb.

Oct 29, 2023 at 11:54 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Nice behavioural series!
Douglas

Oct 30, 2023 at 06:17 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Great set. What were they eating?

Morris

Oct 30, 2023 at 08:32 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

TT1000 wrote:
Superb.

Thanks! Got some good light for some of them.
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douter wrote:
Nice behavioural series!
Douglas

Thank you! Watching them is always entertaining.
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morris wrote:
Great set. What were they eating?

Morris

Thanks. I've seen them eat limpets, mussels, crabs, sand fleas. Mostly mussels in limpets in those shots.

Nov 03, 2023 at 07:22 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Wonderful low angles and great exposures of their behavior at key moments.
Eric

Nov 03, 2023 at 07:31 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Nice set. One of my favorite birds and you captured both the details and behavior well.

Nov 03, 2023 at 08:17 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Great series, "POW"

Nov 04, 2023 at 06:38 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Terrific set of action images.

Nov 04, 2023 at 03:40 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Oystercatchers play chicken (13 images)

Wow - great captures. Almost behavioral story-telling!

Nov 04, 2023 at 08:39 PM


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