Africa - Bird Series
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:29 amHi,
You will probably get tired of my Africa pictures
. I'll make this my last post in the Africa series for a while.
Africa also has more then just the big animals, plenty of birds. I didn't really have the best of lens for taking bird shots, but when I was close enough, I managed to get some reasonable ones. That 80-400VR that Nicole used in Namibia would have been perfect.
Most of these were taken at Lake Nakuru in Kenya, big sign at the National Park gate that says "Bird Watcher's Paradise". There is a wide variety of birds in this park, just a few here. It is also known for the pink flamingos that line the whole lake.
Lots of these Superb Starlings around the lake.
We were lucky to see the Grey Crowned Crane close up
From the Masai Mara, the elusive Secretary bird was found on the way back from a visit to a Masai village.
Cheers,
Radar
(I'll be posting more of my photos to my pixspot area, so if you want to see more of my Africa pictures - birds, lions, elephants, giraffes, etc, have a look there:
(http://www.pixspot.com/index.php?cat=10248)
You will probably get tired of my Africa pictures
. I'll make this my last post in the Africa series for a while.
Africa also has more then just the big animals, plenty of birds. I didn't really have the best of lens for taking bird shots, but when I was close enough, I managed to get some reasonable ones. That 80-400VR that Nicole used in Namibia would have been perfect.
Most of these were taken at Lake Nakuru in Kenya, big sign at the National Park gate that says "Bird Watcher's Paradise". There is a wide variety of birds in this park, just a few here. It is also known for the pink flamingos that line the whole lake.
Lots of these Superb Starlings around the lake.
We were lucky to see the Grey Crowned Crane close up
From the Masai Mara, the elusive Secretary bird was found on the way back from a visit to a Masai village.
Cheers,
Radar
(I'll be posting more of my photos to my pixspot area, so if you want to see more of my Africa pictures - birds, lions, elephants, giraffes, etc, have a look there:
(http://www.pixspot.com/index.php?cat=10248)
. On pixspot, I did put on a few more bird shots, the bigger birds didn´t come out too bad, Marabou storks, fish eagle. The smaller ones end up a bit grainy unless I got really close with the 4x4, just too much cropping, even after some sharpening.