Cape White-eye

BigAl

A really tricky bird to pin down, firstly because of its size (it's really tiny) and secondly they are always on the move. Here on a flower of a Natal (or Giant) Strelitzia - family of the Bird of Paradise flowers.





(taken with the Bigma @ F6.3 with 430ex without beamer)

dbaker1221

good shooting Al I really like that 2nd shot:ivar

Ric Grupe

I know how hard it is to get these little buggers, well done...Al.

jwear

looks like an albino bird of paradise nice shot good setting

BigAl

dbaker1221 wrote:

good shooting Al I really like that 2nd shot:ivar

Thanks Dave!

riddim_maker

Great capture Al
That Bigma seems like a very versatile lens

raptorcaptor

Nice captures Big Al! Like the second one best!

BigAl

Ric Grupe wrote:

I know how hard it is to get these little buggers, well done...Al.

Thanks Ric - didn't realise you got white-eyes on that side of the pond!

Ric Grupe

BigAl wrote:

Thanks Ric - didn't realise you got white-eyes on that side of the pond!

I meant flighty "little buggers" in general.

BigAl

jwear wrote:

looks like an albino bird of paradise nice shot good setting

Thanks Jeff - with the size of the "cup" on that flower, most of the birds in my garden have a sip from it during the course of a day!

BigAl

riddim_maker wrote:

Great capture Al
That Bigma seems like a very versatile lens

Thanks Russ - I really wouldn't change the Bigma for anything at the mo!

BigAl

raptorcaptor wrote:

Nice captures Big Al! Like the second one best!

Thanks Glenn - you need to try your luck down the bottom of the globe again!

Maestro

NIce shots. The bird sort of reminds me of the kinglets we have here in the US.

BigAl

Maestro wrote:

NIce shots. The bird sort of reminds me of the kinglets we have here in the US.

Thanks Stephen. I'm not familiar with kinglets. Saw one in Dave's pics for the first time last week.