Sunday, October 10, 2010

Orange-breasted sunbird

I posted this on Flickr yesterday morning and it made it to the Explore page - that was quite a surprise. It was from an early morning walk at Kirstenbosch with Steve. I brought along my 100-400 mm lens to try to capture some bird photos. I am becoming more and more confident with this lens. I've captured some really cool bird images with it during this field season.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:08 AM

    stunning!

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  2. Nice of it to pose there for you. It couldn't have picked a better spot. What is the plant? It looks like a protea.

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  3. The plant genus is Leucospermum. I'm not sure of the species. It is in the Proteaceae.

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  4. Anonymous10:00 AM

    Outstanding!! very Beautiful ,,Well done

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  5. Anonymous2:25 AM

    Jeez is that a nice shot - thanks to Steve for reminding me to visit here.

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