Just like buses...

Just like buses, you wait for one and then seven come along, all at once.

This is a real feeding haven for OP's, as the mobile kitchen of 1000+ buffalo roam & graze the plains. They provide a valuable service and a nice, colourfull distraction to these, black, powerful, bad tempered (at times) beasts.

Steve
Subject: Yellow billed Oxpeckers feeding on the mane of a Cape Buffalo (Buphagus africanus)
Location: Botswana
Camera: Canon MKIIV
Lens: 500f/4 - Bean bag
Exposure: 1/80s at f/4 ISO1000 0 stop compensation
Crop: Cropped for presentation (original capture vertical)
Subject distance: 25.2m

Great shot of the oxpeckers, Steve, and that empty space at the top suits the subject, but surely they are on a cape buffalo in Botswana?

David

Dam.

Steve

The eyes and bill colour are something else. I'd prefer one single oxpecker larger in frame, just my preference they all seem to be a bit lost as you have them here and the impact is lost for me.

Hi Steve, agree with Barry on this one. The OP's do seem a little lost as most of them are looking away from the camera and have their backs to you. Now if you had been on the other side of the Buffalo....

Nick.

Steve i can see the eye on 5 out of 7 not bad i think,as Barry says the eye and the bill makes these birds.

Keith.

It would have been nice if there was something in the blue sky that the left hand oxpecker was focusing on. As it is, IMHO, there is too much empty sky which distracts me from the main subjects. Still, seven in one shot reminds of of the old fairytale.

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I love it, think it's a fabulous composition, really different.

the birds do look a little lost on the small version but the larger version works nicely for me. An interesting and unusual image.

Matt