All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
When hunting, the kite hovers with its body hanging almost vertically, and its head into the wind.
I was lucky to witness this aerial display, almost mistaking it for a pied kingfisher from a long distance. On approaching it I thought it was stuck in a thread. Later realising that it was hovering. By the time I could get the camera out it had already perched.
Black-shouldered kite
Sony A77ii
Tamron 150-600
f/6.3, 1/1250s, ISO200, 600mm, Pattern metering
Jejuri-Morgaon Road, Pune (India)
Nov. 2018