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He played with this fish for almost two minutes. I thought he was disabling it before swallowing it, but he actually fed it to one of the juveniles. It seemed pretty large compared to the size they usually bring back to feed the young. The juvenile can be seen approaching on the right here.
I’m not a hardcore birder, I shoot only when both the opportunity and mood arise simultaneously, both of which does not happen very often.
I remember feeling challenged shooting this bird and as such it was a great experience.
1. Tiny bird, smaller even than the common Kingfisher but way more colourful.
2. This being a Forest Kingfisher, it’s always in the thicket, never in the open. Had to shoot at very low shutter speed hoping to catch it in between twitches just to keep ISO low enough to preserve details. Being as dim as it was, had to also boost up the EV to avoid having to do any shadow recovery.
3. 600mm even on APS-C crop was barely sufficient.
4. Trying to squeeze out as much details as possible. Used normal wireless release via OVF; MUP+EFC; Live-view, none made any consistent and significant difference. This was where I got a little mad at Nikon’s useless implementation of EFC on the D500, even more useless than the auto AF fine-tune feature. What’s the point of putting in features that don’t really work!? EFC in Live-view would have helped but infuriatingly, you can activate EFC in Live-view yet you can’t use EFC in Live-view, get your act together Nikon!
5. Getting the right pose with the beak pointing sideways and preferably upwards for the slightly haughty look plus some catch-light in the eye.
An experience to remember. a most beautiful bird, its red feathers extend down the centre back of its head to the collar in a narrowing ridge looking like its beak with the dark blue patches on each side of this ridge giving it the appearance of having eyes and beak at the back of its head! This is likely a defensive marking. Especially interesting when the Micronesia Kingfisher became extinct in the wild due to introduced brown tree snake sneaking up on it from behind while the bird was totally focused ahead and below as kingfishers normally do.
Shooting very small birds is always challenging as conditions constantly change with the subject constantly on the move while you aim for that perfect pose which can disappear in a twitch.
I toyed with the idea of getting the Sony a99ii with A-mount Tamron 150-600mm G2 after this but gave it up eventually. It’s not feasible to shoot with so many different systems.
Shot on tripod at 1/15s!
Uploaded a much better image (albeit cropped) with my latest post processing workflow.
Himalayan Black Bulbul | Hypsipetes leucocephalus | Taken @ Sattal | May -2015 | Copyright : AV Fotography
The trig column on Black Hill on the Pennine Way near Holmefirth.
Taken a couple of years ago now with an Olympus XA2 on Kentmere 100 film.
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Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) ~ Pinelllas County, Florida
I had my first black tern of the season this morning. I was photographing some least terns when this beauty came in and gave me a little show.
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Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
Meaning behind the name:
Phoenicurus = Greek meaning "(Crimson/red/purple), taled" that is, "Red tailed"
ochruros = Greek meaning "Pale yellow, tailed"
Personally, I cannot understand why the second scientific name "ochruros" was given, due to the fact it has already been correctly described as "Red-tailed." Though it could be down to the fact that the tail is a little less "striking" and appears slightly duller?
The English name was given by Gould in 1834 and stuck ever since, likely because the mature adult males have black-like plumage as well as a red tail. These birds were originally an occasional visitor before that time and therefore lacks any local folk names.
The term "Redstart" is more interesting, as Common Redstarts were known as a breeding species long before Black redstarts were known. The correct term (as in the scientific name) is "Red-tailed" and the term "start" is middle English "stert" and of Germanic in origin and simply means "tail". The term "start" is older than the word "tail" ( first appearing as tayl) and apparently the Germanic form stuck with certain bird names. Redstart first appeared in 1570 as "Redstarte".
Native to Australia and not yet officially accepted as a British Bird. Taken at the Tring reservoir, Bucks.
Yesterday on Ellen, 9-year-old Yuto Miyazawa stunned us with his awesome rendition of Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train. Initially, I thought he was doing it on Guitar Hero, but no, he was using a full-size guitar that seemed to be even bigger than him. I'm always so in awe of young people who have the gift of music, whatever genre that may be. If you want to see this child wonder's performance, click here.
For Day 133 of the 2009 Photo Challenge: Rock
Horses are so beautiful - can anyone resist its charm?
Pferde sind so wunderschön - kann irgendjemand ihrer Anmut widerstehen?
A small group of gulls on the shore just north of Seahouses. I'm assuming that they are black-headed gulls, even though the leg and bill colour and the two-banded hood remnant don't look quite right. I've searched through every gull mug shot I can find and can't find an alternative, but any suggestions are welcome.
Black-winged Stilt at Mangalajodi in Chilika Lake, Odisha.
The black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) is a widely distributed very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae). The scientific name H. himantopus was formerly applied to a single, almost cosmopolitan species.