Kingfisher and friends at the lake

Since I can't go to Photokina, I went to the lake early yesterday morning to see if any migrants have arrived yet. Not yet, but some other photo ops presented themselves. While I was shooting a Snowy Egret, a Belted Kingfisher came and hovered fairly close. Fortunately I already was shooting with AF-C and a fast shutter speed for the Snowy, so I quickly swung over to the Kingfisher and got some shots of him with my K5+DA*300 hand-held.

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