Capturing birds in flight is a bit of a challenge and the newer Sony cameras now have Pre-capture options. It’s a cheat where you are monitoring a bird(anything for that matter) for a while to take off or do its thing and click. Voilà, The camera can store a second worth of pics before your click to the memory. If you had everything setup correctly, you have some good-looking pics of a bird taking off. I’m still getting used to this feature, and this was an accidental capture. I’m just mind blown at how far ahead we have come with these cameras. Expect more such photos and hopefully they will be far better than this.