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Giant Kingfishers: Laughing Kookaburra's in flight & stills

Started Feb 20, 2016 | Photos thread
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Re: Really funny, vass, I don't think I have seen side-on pix…

Hen3ry wrote:

…of a kookaburra in flight before -- or even seen one in flight from that angle. They just looked totally strange to me; I really didn't recognize the bird and goodness knows, I have seen enough of them in three quarters of a century of life mainly in Australia!

Weird and well done!

That first pic -- I presume you were using the Oly f2.8 150 + 1.4 extender. That background was a bit close and as a result, has a rather unpleasant appearance to me. I have seen it before with this lens. With the background further away in other pix, it has smoothed out fine.

The sitting kooka in the 5th picture is really nice. One hesitates to use the term "cute" but it is!

Cheers Geoffrey

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