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This New Zealand Kea parrot looks like he is sliding safely into third base after grabbing onto a bush in whipping canyon winds. 
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Sliding into Third Base
March 23, 2012    f/5.6   1/640 second
   
         
   
I was determined to capture a good action photo of a Kea in flight. Strong gales consistently ripped through the canyon making that all but impossible. Even as I thought a Kea was about to take flight, I would lock on him prepared to shutter, only to have him ripped from one canyon wall to the other much faster than I could follow.  After a while I finally got lucky and caught this guy just as he zipped in to land, just barely grabbing the top of this bush.
 
   
         
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