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Female Kingfisher With her Catch

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Posted by Karen Summers on October 3, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Female Kingfisher With her Catch
I watched this kingfisher for ages bashing away at this poor fish, she just couldn t quite get it down for a while and was even flying around with it before trying again.The colours in this one are quite vibrant but thats just how they were I have done nothing to them, the sun come out and brought out the vibrancy.

Canon 1DMK4, Canon 500f4L + 1.4 convertor, ISO 400,f8, 1/500



Posted by Lee fisher on October 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Top shot Karen, its incredible how the light can change the colours of these birds.
Lee :toast:
Posted by Justin on October 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM
I like the vibrant colours here and also the clear view of the fish's face :cool:
Posted by PhilH on October 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Nice one... vibrant colours are fine...

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on October 3, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Another good one.Not for the stickle though :frown:
JohnR
Posted by Andy Shepherd on October 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM

Looks good to me too Karen and catchlights in both sets of eyes :cool:

Andy...
Posted by Fran French on October 3, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Oh very nice Karen, great detail and colour in the bird, and I love the eye contact from them both.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on October 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM
That stickleback has a look that says it isn't having a good day! Very nice pic but looks a bit light on this monitor.
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on October 3, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Looking perfect to me Karen :smile:

I like the fact that I can see the fish's face too.
Well done.

Geoff.
Posted by Dale Sutton on October 3, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Handeled the very strong light well Karen.

Dale :toast:
Posted by Neil Burton on October 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Fish looks exhausted! Cool expression.
Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on October 3, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Great shot Karen :toast: :toast:

Oscar :wavey:
Posted by Craig Jones on October 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Lovely image harsh light handeled very well great colours coming from the KF :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Another cracking Kingy shot Karen :toast:


Minor nit it looks a bit light :smile:
Posted by Karen Summers on October 3, 2010 at 6:09 PM
Have knocked it down a tad but because of the light can t tone it down anymore, it will just look to different to what it was on the day, thanks for the comments everyone

Posted by David Kjaer on October 4, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Nice one Karen - no nits from me. Prefer the repost.

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Danielle Nichol on October 6, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Great shot, love the contrast in colours between the bird and perch, bright sunshine is always a pain for kingfishers and dippers, but you have done well here. :toast: :toast:

Looks like a young male to me though, looking at the breast feathers I would say its from this years first brood,

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