Green Plover

2 cracking images, you've nailed the first, tack sharp BIF, and even a catchlight, well done. The strong lighting doesn't bother me, it's a cracker.

I love the light on the second image, it's more subdued than the first. Personally, I would crop to just below the darker area at the top, or maybe just leave a hint of it. The bird is razor sharp and you've controlled the whites well. A really nice image and probably my favourite of the 2.

I often wonder exactly how many names these beauties have, lapwing, peewit, green plover etc etc, lovely birds though. I remember them every year in the fields near to where I lived. I also remember having a rant at a farmer chaining his field, with no regard for the nests. I wasn't into photography in them days and they were plentiful, there don't seem to be so many nowadays.
 
Dale. said:
I remember them every year in the fields near to where I lived. I also remember having a rant at a farmer chaining his field, with no regard for the nests. I wasn't into photography in them days and they were plentiful, there don't seem to be so many nowadays.
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Cheers Dale, as you do as kids we would run into the fields just to scare the flocks of Peewits up, to hear them call, they were always in large numbers, now we only see a few small flocks in the local area each year :-(
 
wanilson said:
Green Plovers
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Green Plovers? I thought they are called Northern Lapwing!!!
I see them at the marsh later in the year but never so close! :(
Fantastic air acrobats and very cool iridescence, (y)
 
Kodiak Qc said:
Green Plovers? I thought they are called Northern Lapwing
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They are know by three names Kodiak, Green Plover, Lapwing or Peewit, the most common in the UK being Peewit :)
 
wanilson said:
They are know by three names Kodiak, Green Plover, Lapwing or Peewit, the most common in the UK being Peewit :)
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Wow, thanks for that! (y)
 
Nice pictures!

In Orkney they are called Teeick which i think relates to the sound they make? Or is that peewit they say?
They're pretty good at making spectacular dancing when it breeding time.
 
wanilson said:
....Green Plovers to fill the sky with their noisy displays
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Lovely shots of one of my favourite waders, Ian :)
- interestingly, just north of you (you know where!), we call them either Lapwing or Peewit and hardly ever Green Plover. But what's in a name? They are quite a sight when circling and calling overhead.

Russ
 
wanilson said:
They are know by three names Kodiak, Green Plover, Lapwing or Peewit, the most common in the UK being Peewit :)
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Pyewipe in Lincolnshire, particularly if you are talking to an old boy.
 
Thanks for the comments, interesting to hear the local variations on the name as well :)
 
Well captured Ian, not an easy bird to shoot in flight and lovely colours on the floor shot(y)

Puw-wit for us round here :D
 
The flight shot is very good and nicely caught in the ground too. Have to be honest, I didn't recognise it in flight.

Kodiak Qc said:
Wow, thanks for that! (y)
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I've just learned something myself, Daniel . I call them lapwing. There are huge flocks at Slimbridge. When I saw the title I wanted to see what it was.

Scroll down to 'What's in a name' . You'll read that in 17th century England the word 'plover' was given to a prostitute or a deceitful women and get this....lol. Not a flock of lapwing etc BUT a 'deceit' of Lapwing. Not many will know that. The mind biggles. :rolleyes:


https://www.bto.org/about-birds/species-focus/lapwing
 
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