Bird Watching: favorite pic from this year?, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
A lovely array of favourite pictures.
It is a hard choice to make, but I think my favourite taken in 2007 was this Black-shouldered Kite Elanus notataus. I saw it in a tree in Mathison Park, where we walk regularly, but the light was behind him. I took several pictures, and then made a big detour and managed to get a view of him from the other side with perfect lighting. My first pictures would have been very pleasing, but the second set were so much better that I discarded all the first set.
This is a delightful little raptor, that hunts in open grassland, hovering like a kestrel, when it is searching for its prey.

Kennedy