Wow, I've never come close to a capture like that! Super download!
Old Al
Loc: Litchfield County, Connecticut
Love your shots, but you are blaming the WRONG bird. The FEMAIL kingfisher is one of the few birds that are actually more colorful than their male counterparts. FEMAIL birds are “drabber” to help camouflage them on their nest. Kingfishers typically nest in borrows in the muddy sides of water, hence the rust color breast helping to hide the mother are she sits facing out.
Great photo.. Been trying to get a photo of a king fisher for sometime but no luck. That’s a hard bird to photograph. Excellent photo. 👍👍👍👍👍
Marg
Loc: Canadian transplanted to NW Alabama
Wonderful shot, Frank! I’ll bet you were thrilled and I’m in awe of your steadiness. I have a kingfisher pair here at the cottage. They are very hard to catch but yesterday the female sat not too far from me and I shot her with guess what lens. I was excited but I’m sure she was laughing at me because when I got them on the computer every shot has a small branch across her face. Would it be unethical I wonder to ask my husband to climb a ladder and trim the offending branches?
Marg wrote:
Wonderful shot, Frank! I’ll bet you were thrilled and I’m in awe of your steadiness. I have a kingfisher pair here at the cottage. They are very hard to catch but yesterday the female sat not too far from me and I shot her with guess what lens. I was excited but I’m sure she was laughing at me because when I got them on the computer every shot has a small branch across her face. Would it be unethical I wonder to ask my husband to climb a ladder and trim the offending branches?
Trim the tree without further thought, Marg.
Nalu
Loc: Southern Arizona
Marg wrote:
Wonderful shot, Frank! I’ll bet you were thrilled and I’m in awe of your steadiness. I have a kingfisher pair here at the cottage. They are very hard to catch but yesterday the female sat not too far from me and I shot her with guess what lens. I was excited but I’m sure she was laughing at me because when I got them on the computer every shot has a small branch across her face. Would it be unethical I wonder to ask my husband to climb a ladder and trim the offending branches?
Hi Marg, Thanks for the look and comments but I should clarify your thoughts about “steadiness”. I was not handholding (especially considering I was at 1200mm). As I mentioned, I was focused on the perched male and “she” showed up out of nowhere. Basically she flew into the frame and focus and all I had to do was hold down the shutter button. After the commotion before looking at the playback I asked myself, did I get that?
I doubt very much there would have been much clarity at all had I been handholding 1200mm at 1/1000.
I am going to go back out this morning and hope for a repeat exhibition. It would be nice to be lucky two days in a row. But obviously these guys like like the spot so so do I.
By all means, get your husband to get the tree cleaned up!
Have a great day and good luck with the kingfishers.
Nice shot! Did you find them in Az?
Nalu
Loc: Southern Arizona
suntouched wrote:
Nice shot! Did you find them in Az?
Montana. Here for the summer!
Nalu wrote:
Its been a long time coming but I finally got some shots of a (more than one) belted kingfisher. They were far away hence a 2X on my 600mm with my Sony A1. And the light was poor so I was having to push the ISO to keep my shutter speeds where I prefer, but (unfortunately) I decided to drop my shutter speed (lowering the ISO as well) in order to get a little better quality of a perched female. Then, to my delight, and disappointment, this male decides to come in and kicked the female off the perch. So, with the action, 1/1000 was not fast enough (imo) to freeze the bird to my liking. But, it was fast enough to save the image with some post. Anyway, I am stoked to have some kingfishers cooperate and thought I would share one of my favorites. Hope you enjoy and constructive reviews are always appreciated.
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I think you did very well. The shot is sharp and the image tells a story.
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