Just birds of Africa

kgarrett11

Here are a few of the birds that I saw while in Africa this past summer. Come on Florida lotto, I want to go back.
As with the pics that I posted a couple of days ago these are all unprocessed. I only ran them throught the image processor to convert them from RAW to JPEG and resize them. They were taken with my backup camera the D100 using my 80-400mm VR lens. All are either hand held or supported on a beanbag. Let me know what you think.

#1 We were near a tree in the Maasai Mara and these vultures kept flying straight at us and landing in the tree.



#2


#3


#4


#5 This one looks like he/she (who could tell) wants to be on a flag or coin somewhere.


#6 This is not a vulture



#7 Secretary bird


#8 Crowned crane


#9


#10 Superb starling


#11 Barbet


#12


#13 Guineafowl


#14 Fish Eagle


#15 Saddle-billed Stork


#16


#17 African white pelicans


#18 Marabou Stork

jdmphoto

Very nice set of pictures Although I recognize a lot of these birds it would be nice if you would put the names of the birds with the photo's.
My favorite is #10.

Giphsub

I particularly like #12 #16 and #17

Glad you pointed out that that little fella wasn't a vulture!

kgarrett11

jdmphoto wrote:

Very nice set of pictures Although I recognize a lot of these birds it would be nice if you would put the names of the birds with the photo's.
My favorite is #10.

I've tried to identify what I could. I know that there are many different types of vultures but I am not sure which is which.

kgarrett11

Giphsub wrote:

I particularly like #12 #16 and #17

Glad you pointed out that that little fella wasn't a vulture!

The only place that I had ever seen flamingo's was in a zoo, so I had never seen one take off. I was amazed at how they ran across the water the way they did.

Giphsub

yep, that looks pretty special to experience in real life

kgarrett11

Giphsub wrote:

yep, that looks pretty special to experience in real life

Thanks, it was unbeliveably special

Maestro

What a great birding adventure! You can really tell the difference between old world and new world vultures just by looking at the talons! The flamingos, the secretary bird and the crowned crane are the stand-outs to me!

kgarrett11

Maestro wrote:

What a great birding adventure! You can really tell the difference between old world and new world vultures just by looking at the talons! The flamingos, the secretary bird and the crowned crane are the stand-outs to me!

Thanks Maestro, I have sooooo many of the flamingos that I can't possibly post them in a thread here.

dbaker1221

very nice set well done

probably you could have just wrote ugly bird on alot of them

kgarrett11

dbaker1221 wrote:

very nice set well done

probably you could have just wrote ugly bird on alot of them

Thanks. Yea the vultures are ugly but to me that Marabou Stork is about the ugliest stork that I have ever seen.

Harryb

Outstanding set.

kgarrett11

Harryb wrote:

Outstanding set.

Thanks Harry. It's easy to get shots when the subjects cooperate.