San Diego Zoo - Part 7: This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24 - 70mm lens and then cropping severely resulted in several unusable photos. The last four shots were taken in a hummingbird aviary, although two of the birds are not hummingbirds.

If you can identify the unlabeled birds, I would appreciate you letting me know.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Red Cheeked Cordon Bleu
Red Cheeked Cordon Bleu...

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White Bellied Buffalo Weaver
White Bellied Buffalo Weaver...

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White faced bee eater
White faced bee eater...

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Horseart Loc: Alabama

Lovely set. God's beautiful little creatures. Years ago, I raised Cordon Blues. They make the sweetest little sounds. They are VERY sensitive. If there is a loud boom, or anything that scares them, they simply drop dead. My nephew accidently hit my huge cage with a beach ball and my mated pair dropped dead instantly.

Sinewsworn Loc: Port Orchard, WA

UTMike wrote:

This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24 - 70mm lens and then cropping severely resulted in several unusable photos. The last four shots were taken in a hummingbird aviary, although two of the birds are not hummingbirds.

If you can identify the unlabeled birds, I would appreciate you letting me know.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Great set! Thanx for sharing.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Nicely done Mike

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Horseart wrote:

Lovely set. God's beautiful little creatures. Years ago, I raised Cordon Blues. They make the sweetest little sounds. They are VERY sensitive. If there is a loud boom, or anything that scares them, they simply drop dead. My nephew accidently hit my huge cage with a beach ball and my mated pair dropped dead instantly.

Thanks, Jo. This was my first encounter with them.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Sinewsworn wrote:

Great set! Thanx for sharing.

Thanks for the encouragement, Tim.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Curmudgeon wrote:

Nicely done Mike

Thanks, Jack, great photo ops.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

UTMike wrote:

This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24 - 70mm lens and then cropping severely resulted in several unusable photos. The last four shots were taken in a hummingbird aviary, although two of the birds are not hummingbirds.

If you can identify the unlabeled birds, I would appreciate you letting me know.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Phenomenally beautiful shots 🎯🎯⭐🎯🎯 I don't know why, but I would expect a bee eater to look a heck of a lot less relaxed and unruffled than this one does

angler Loc: StHelens England

Nice set Mike

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Birds is birds no matter where you shoot them, Mike. Nice set.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

joecichjr wrote:

Phenomenally beautiful shots 🎯🎯⭐🎯🎯 I don't know why, but I would expect a bee eater to look a heck of a lot less relaxed and unruffled than this one does

Thanks, Joe, these birds know that they have it made - free food and no predators.

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

Great variety Mike...such beautiful birds.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

CindyHouk wrote:

Great variety Mike...such beautiful birds.

Thanks, Cindy, it is nice to have so many beautiful subjects.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

UTMike wrote:

This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24 - 70mm lens and then cropping severely resulted in several unusable photos. The last four shots were taken in a hummingbird aviary, although two of the birds are not hummingbirds.

If you can identify the unlabeled birds, I would appreciate you letting me know.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Nice set Mike

srsincary Loc: Cary, NC

UTMike wrote:

This set contains the remainder of the birds I shot in the aviaries at the zoo. My adventure in shooting birds with a 24 - 70mm lens and then cropping severely resulted in several unusable photos. The last four shots were taken in a hummingbird aviary, although two of the birds are not hummingbirds.

If you can identify the unlabeled birds, I would appreciate you letting me know.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Lovely set, Mike!