photoartflightBig Cloud, Little Bird
Posted on March 7, 2020
It is always fun to photograph Belted Kingfishers. But they are very small birds that are usually very skittish. So it is hard to get closeups of them. But I noticed this Kingfisher way off in the distance when we were at J.N. Ding Darling NWR. I liked the large cloud background accenting the small Kingfisher. The featured image was captured with a 400mm DO lens on a Canon 7D (Full Frame FOV ~ 640mm)
Slightly cropped for closer view
More Extreme crop of above images
Another view. Liked the raised wing. Extreme crop
Belted Kingfisher Fishing
Posted on January 11, 2020
I am cleaning up and going through my external hard drives and came upon this image of a Belted Kingfisher trying to catch a meal, photographed years ago. This is an image as it hit the water. It is interesting to see the large water splash from the impact of the small Kingfisher! Unfortunately it is a severe crop because it was on the other side of a small lake, but I still thought it was interesting to see. So please excuse the “roughness” of the image!
Kingfisher On The Lookout
Posted on July 26, 2014
I finally saw a Kingfisher at one of the local nature areas. Usually they are here before this, but there was limited sightings so far. This one was on a branch across from me. The Kingfisher stayed for about 10 minutes then flew off to the channel, chattering as he went.
Kingfisher Chattering
Early Morning Landscape with morning light on the grasses across the Lake.
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