Tag a Safaritalker to post a birding photo.

[Game Warden]

Here's mine to get the ball rolling.

 

 

Palm Nut Vulture in flight, Kosi Bay, South Africa.

 

Next up I tag @@Peter Connan

 

(Note: if the tagged member doesn't reply within a couple of days, tag someone else...)

[Peter Connan]

Challenge accepted.

 

 

Lilac-breasted roller, Kgalagadi.

 

I tag @@xelas

[xelas]

Lets play the game!

 

Mallard / Anas platyrhynchos

Nikon D7100 + Nikkor AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6E ED @ 500mm, 1/640 sec, f/6.3, ISO360, VR ON, handheld, cropped.

 

Picture taken at dead-end water canal 150 m away from my house, Ljubljana on Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 at 14:00.

 

I tag @@Tom Kellie

[Tom Kellie]

Juvenile Larus michahellis by Canale della Giudecca

Photographed on 1 April, 2013 at 6:09 pm in Venice, Italy on the Canale della Giudecca with an EOS 1D X camera and a Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 50mm f/2 ZE lens

ISO 100, 1/4000 sec., f/2, manual focussed, handheld Manual mode exposure

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I tag @@michael-ibk

[Tom Kellie]

~ @@Game Warden

 

In retrospect, your palm nut vulture image is a mighty fine photograph.

Looking at it again, there's impressive detail and an overall cool, aesthetic look about it.

It's a great bird image to start off this topic.

Tom K.

[michael-ibk]

A brand-new one especially for this thread. From today: Red-Crested Pochard

 

 

I tag @@TonyQ

Edited April 3, 2016 by michael-ibk

[Peter Connan]

Beautiful pictures being posted here!

[TonyQ]

I agree on the beautiful photos!

Great idea for a thread @@Game Warden

 

Thank you @@michael-ibk

Here is one taken on 23.12.15

Black Headed Gull (probably...) (Birmingham)

 

For the next post I tag @@Atravelynn

Edited April 4, 2016 by TonyQ

[Atravelynn]

It is flying right at me! What a catch, @@TonyQ. Well done!

 

This is closer to home. In fact, about 2 blocks from my home. We are approaching this time of year again. Spring is coming.

 

 

I am tagging @@pault for a little bif if he is so inclined.

[TonyQ]

@@Atravelynn

What a lovely photo- I didn't know they took their babies on their back!

[pault]

A bif as requested by @@Atravelynn

 

 

@@ZaminOz please produce a native Australian bird

[Tom Kellie]

~ @@pault

 

That's one of the most striking BIF images I've seen.

The dark wings against the haunting background has that post-apocalyptic look.

One-of-a-kind and thus memorable.

I like it!

Tom K.

[Atravelynn]

A bif as requested by @@Atravelynn

 

 

@@ZaminOz please produce a native Australian bird

No Bif Background? Please tell us what or where! I think Edgar Allan Poe would like this shot too.

[pault]

It is an Asian Openbill Stork @@Atravelynn ... a winter visitor to Thailand. Taken just a short distance from home.

[Atravelynn]

It is an Asian Openbill Stork @@Atravelynn ... a winter visitor to Thailand. Taken just a short distance from home.

Nice camera work at home.

[ZaminOz]

Hi @@pault thanks for the tag!

I apologise for not having posted anything yet as I can't do it from work and often don't have time to sit down at the computer when I get home. However I will do so (tonight hopefully).

[ZaminOz]

Australian Shelducks, Rottnest Island, Western Australia

 

Pentax K10, f6.3, 1/500, ISO 100

 

Pentax K10, f6.3, 1/350, ISO 100

 

Pentax K10, f6.3, 1/350, ISO 100

 

I tag @@deano

Edited April 7, 2016 by ZaminOz

[kittykat23uk]

Great images ! keep them coming.

[deano]

thank you @@ZaminOz....but this is what you get when you tag a non birder - a bird that happens to be in a picture of something else!

 

 

Shamwari Game Reserve 18 March 2013 Nikon P510 1/60 F4.8 ISO400 and those numbers mean only slightly less to me now than they did then. I believe that one of the objects in this picture is a hamerkop (Scopus umbretta)

 

@@kittykat23uk - since you are enjoying this thread then please consider yourself tagged!

Edited April 7, 2016 by deano

[ZaminOz]

LOL @@deano I was like you once, but I was then inspired by all the amazing "birders" on Safaritalk to start paying more attention to the "feathered ones" on safaris (and at home). Wouldn't exactly call myself a "twitcher", but I certainly appreciate the bird sightings more now.

[kittykat23uk]

One from Ladakh, Ibisbill

 

P2160319 by Jo Dale, on Flickr

 

I tag @@Tdgraves

[Tdgraves]

Thanks @@kittykat23uk. How about one of the first shots taken with the brand new 7D mark II from our recent Kruger trip?

 

 

How about it @@JohnR

[JohnR]

Aaargh, @@Tdgraves IANAB!

 

But I've a thousand images of my garden taken through a grimy kitchen window, so here is a soggy long-tailed tit in the rain on 28 March 2016; EOS 7D2 + 100-400L mark 2 at 400mm, ISO 3200, f/8 at 1/125 handheld.

 

 

 

I nominate @lmSA84 to post next.

[Tdgraves]

You don't need to be a birder @@JohnR neither am I......

[egilio]

Jealous on that ibisbill! @@kittykat23uk