Some more hornbills

BigAl

I spent a couple of days at a friend's place in the bush. The weather was a bit iffy, so I spent a lot of time on his veranda :slurp taking pics of the passing parade.

Yellowbilled Hornbill




Redbilled Hornbill








For Susan: note the size of food and how they manipulate it in the last pic!

All taken with a beamer.

Maestro

What a parade. You did a good job handling the exposure with the beamer. I tend to blow out the whites way to often with the beamer. Nice bird with colorful bill. It looks like it changed colors in the time you were photographing it.

dbaker1221

excellent job Al!!!

Ric Grupe

Good captures of two very cool birds, Al.

(I'm still not sure they are real!):D

Harryb

Excellent work Al

PrescottPhotog

BigAl wrote:

I spent a couple of days at a friend's place in the bush. The weather was a bit iffy, so I spent a lot of time on his veranda taking pics of the passing parade.

Nice shot Al. I really like the last one. What wonderful critters you must have to photo over there. Thanks for posting.

riddim_maker

Great job Al even while :slurp
thanks for the introduction to a bird that we otherwise would never have seen

BigAl

Maestro wrote:

What a parade. You did a good job handling the exposure with the beamer. I tend to blow out the whites way to often with the beamer. Nice bird with colorful bill. It looks like it changed colors in the time you were photographing it.

Thanks Stephen! I think the colour difference is probably because they are different birds [I'll check on the eye shadow colours when I get a chance.]

BigAl

dbaker1221 wrote:

excellent job Al!!!

Thanks Dave!

jwear

great shots Al ----ah just one thing are you not suppose to be out looking for eagles

BigAl

Ric Grupe wrote:

Good captures of two very cool birds, Al.

(I'm still not sure they are real!):D

Thanks Ric!

[they are real - can't you see how poorly the makeup has been applied? ]

BigAl

Harryb wrote:

Excellent work Al

Thanks Harry!

[I like your new sig :slurp]

BigAl

PrescottPhotog wrote:

Nice shot Al. I really like the last one. What wonderful critters you must have to photo over there. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Chris! Glad you enjoyed!

bfjr

Neat shots of a strange birdie

BigAl

riddim_maker wrote:

Great job Al even while :slurp
thanks for the introduction to a bird that we otherwise would never have seen

Thanks Russ

BigAl

jwear wrote:

great shots Al ----ah just one thing are you not suppose to be out looking for eagles

Thanks Jeff.

Eagles?? Eagles??

[I'm looking, just haven't found any close enough :cry]

BigAl

bfjr wrote:

Neat shots of a strange birdie

Thanks Ben! Hope the home improvements are going well