Thanks Col, Leon, Mike, Carlos, Tony and Ken, for your nice words of appreciation.
A nice white lens with a red ring, the AF on the 7D and the strong headwind that restricted the birds to manageable regions of airspace really helped for this session, not forgetting the important ingredient of plain good luck!
I stuffed up the Manual settings on some of the in-flight shots. Adobe Lightroom indicates that they were 1 ˝ stops underexposed, so I was lucky to pull out the detail from the shadows without too much loss of image quality.
It is an excellent location to practice BIF photography as the Kites tend to loiter over the jetty at Tangalooma where the local staff feed the Pelicans and sometimes the Kites get scraps of fish too.
Increasingly a flotilla of Pied Cormorants attend the Pelican feeding sessions and on this occasion, a Pelican grabbed a Corm in its beak and forced the poor creature to give up its fish!
Cheers
Dennis
but excellent captures. 
