I mean, I guess it's a jackdaw at a very strange angle, but I can't make sense of it!
Reading, UK, Canon R6 + RF800mm
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The new term is UAP. It stands for unidentified aerial potato.
Perhaps a proper Kite photo to compensate, possibly even the same bird.
Yeah that’s a flying rock for sure. Pretty common this time of year.
Is the tiny one a baby Roc?
As I understand it from reference books, those live in Egypt or points south or perhaps the China Seas, and dine on Elephants, so I rather dismissed that breed as a candidate!
I had to look at it quite a while, but now im pretty sure the rock is just perfectly facing away from the camera. Legs facing backwards and the wings pulled completely back ready for the next swing. Maybe there is some movement distortion but would be odd at that speed.
You a quite probably right, given what I saw of the little drama (the corvids and the kites were squabbling all through the walk - alas I didn't seen enough of a mixed group of jackdaws and crows mobbing a kite to photo it), but the photo in isolation just had me foxed.
1/1250s speed, and stabilizer on, so I doubt movement distortion, but worth the question.