Emily Rayner

@flightemily.bsky.social

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Ornithologist, engineer and programmer. Fascinated by flight. Making Skytrap, an avian camera trap for flight and aeroecology research.

A flock of 19 little pied cormorants (Microcarbo melanoleucos) flying in a flock towards their evening roost on a quite windy and overcast day.
A green wildlife camera pointing at the sky adjacent to a solar panel that is powering it.
A series of silhouettes lined up head to tail that depict a Red Wattlebird flying overhead at approximately 0.016s intervals.
A sequence of silhouettes of a Little Corella flying extracted from a video. Video taken from beneath the bird by a skytrap bird camera trap.
A slow motion video of a Red Wattlebird landing on a part of the house adjacent to the skytrap camera.
Australian hobby manoeuvring in front of an overcast sky. The hobby is heading into strong and variable northerly winds. It appears to primarily be using its tail to control direction.
Little raven flying from left to right of frame. For a moment there is a flash of white as feathers reflect light to the camera.
Cropped video of a Little Eagle gliding into wind on a blue sky.
A flock of little pied cormorants travelling from their roost to the coast on a partly cloudy morning
Rosella sp. flying over camera with overcast sky background. Probably Crimson, but Eastern is also present in area.
A camera with a green housing on a tripod. The camera is pointed skyward so it can observe birds flying overhead.
A pair of flying Australasian Darters captured from below, partly cloudy evening sky in the background.
A custom camera pointing at the sky to catch birds in flight passing overhead.
A wall mural depicting Kororoit Creek and some wildlife with waste in the creek. It is titled “rubbish in the street ends up in the creek”. The wildlife are a New Holland honeyeater, white faced heron and an unknown frog.
Juvenile Silver Gull on a jetty. Not particularly bothered by the commuters and fishermen.
Sign in Kanazawa warning visitors that Black Kites (Milvus migrans) may swoop and take your food. It depicts a kite attempting to take an unsuspecting person’s burger. I never expected kites to take the niche that gulls have in Melbourne.
A superb fairywren inquisitively looking at some cameras from a vantage point on a rock just outside their field of view. The cameras capture flight data if a bird flies within their field of view.