Carmine Beeeater

Gallery: AvianPosted May 29, 201382 views8 comments

These birds are for me highly photogenic and have a remarkable habit of following moving vehicles picking up insects, it is great fun waving your camera around trying to get one somewhere in the frame.
This was taken in the Savute Channel area of Chobe National Park, Botswana.
EOS 1D Mk III
28-300mm at 150mm
F7.1
ISO 800
1/5000
hand-held from moving vehicle

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Mike Ramy on May 29, 2013 at 2:07 PM

A Trick Shooter,
If you were also driving the vehicle, that would be even better . . .

Great action shot Ken.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 29, 2013 at 6:55 PM

Amazingly sharp for the shooting conditions, ken. Nice wing position and eye contact.

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Comment posted by Bill Leggett on May 29, 2013 at 7:26 PM

This is a very nice image, Ken, and a particularly interesting way to capture it. Nice work for fairly close range at 150. Hmm, I assume you weren't driving

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM

Cool way to capture a shot Ken and nice job in doing so. Those long tail feathers are cool and like the open beak as well.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 29, 2013 at 9:17 PM

Mike, Dennis and Bill,

Thanks for your comments, the driving was undertaken by a good friend of mine Ewan Masson (Masson Safaris) who used to drive for Frans Lanting in the good old days

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 29, 2013 at 9:32 PM

Kurt,

Thanks very much it seems our posts overlapped

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 29, 2013 at 11:05 PM

An excellent flight shot of one of my favorite species, the open beak makes it even better Ken

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 29, 2013 at 11:08 PM

Nate,

Thanks very much for your comment

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