Eastern Kingbird - New Jersey

Short clip of an Eastern Kingbird calling, flapping its wings, spreading its tail and scratching its head, all that in few seconds 🤩

There was another kingbird in the area and I believe that this behavior of flapping wings and spreading the tail was a territorial response. What do you think?

Tip:

This video is "to tight" as I would like but that is a side effect of using the same gear for photographing and recording videos at the same time. During my outings, I'm mostly concentrated on taking photographs. Video comes in second, mostly because it is hard to find a cooperative bird that will stay for prolonged time in the same spot to record it. This clip is a perfect example why this doesn't always work out. Most of the DSLR's these days, while recording video at their highest quality, have an additional crop to the image. Meaning, the moment you press record button, image "zooms in". In this case, bird barely fit the frame.

How would I solve this? The best is to have a goal set before your outing and prioritize what you want to shoot the most. Photographs or video. It would definitely helped if I had a zoom lens mounted, but I was set on photographing very small and shy warblers that day, and I needed all the focal length I had. This was recorded at 1560mm (600mm lens with a 2x teleconverter + 1.3x crop) but for photographs my length was 1200mm.

Nevertheless, I thought that the behavior I recorded was worth a share :) Feel free to share this video with others!

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