Raptor Migration at the Strait of Gibraltar, September 2023 (4k) 

We were there three weeks, Nige and I walked on a beach once! :) Much more fun riving around finding stuff.

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Most of the annoying jerkiness was caused by the strong winds, ironically the same wind strength that brought the birds down within camera range. Strong blow, chucking the birds erratically around, while at the same time catching in the lens hood and bouncing the hand -held camera. I'm busy with part 2 now. Much more civilised with waders feeding at close range - and steady! :) @@nige7577

⁠​⁠@@alangilbertson8239It’s never easy filming anything moving in the sky when it’s windy Alan and even harder when you’re doing it handheld.

@@nige7577 I was using 500mm focal length zoom lens on a 1.6 crop body, so the view was equivalent to 800mm. The slightest twitch looks like an earthquake.

Well, whoever wrote that in Wiki hasn't a clue, because dark morphs certainly do, along with smaller numbers of intermediate birds. As I say in the video, the pale morph is the most common, but each year I've been going for the autumn migration (annually since 2001apart from a break from 2020-2022) I've seen dark morphs aplenty. In fact this year, I was commenting to a well known local observer that there seemed to be more dark birds than usual, but that was just an unscientific observation, based on perception, not recording. I photographed many.