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The half-second before and after

Take-offs, landings, and the moments in between. Mostly small birds, which makes them mostly luck — earned by watching one perch for long enough to know what it does next.

Grey heron landing silhouette on coloured water
Starling cloud above farmland
Male stonechat taking flight from a perch
Distant starling murmuration over open ground
House sparrow in flight
Marsh Harrier gliding silently over fields
Blue tit leaving a nest hole in a dead stump
Rock pipit dropping onto a rock with prey
Marsh harrier crossing a wetland meadow
Rock pipit landing among shoreline surf
Sand martins hunting over calm water
Common tern rising from the water with a catch
Common tern hunting in flight
Red kite mobbed by a crow
Rock pipit taking off from a coastal rock
Common buzzard soaring

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