Tdgraves big year 2019

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 500, f7.1, 1/2500

 

 

 

284) Knob-billed duck

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 640, f7.1, 1/3200

 

 

285) Glossy ibis

[Tdgraves]

In searching to see if I had already posted a little grebe (I had) I found it was posted twice, so this is 285 part 2.

 

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f7.1, 1/5000

 

 

285) Black-winged kite

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f7.1, 1/5000

 

 

286) Red-billed teal

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f7.1, 1/2500

 

 

287) Greater flamingo (finally!)

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 400, f7.1, 1/2500

 

 

288) Little swift

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 640, f7.1, 1/2000

 

 

289) Levaillant's cisticola

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f6.3, 1/1600

 

 

290) Egyptian goose

[xelas]

Zibulo delivered. Nice that you did not have to drive into the rising sun !

[PeterHG]

A good number of species from Zibulo! 

[Galana]

Some nice captures there. Keep em coming.

[Tdgraves]

Thanks @xelas @PeterHG and @Galana

still a few more to come and it was properly light when we arrived, so sun not an issue

[Tdgraves]

And a new one for us....

 

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f6.3, 1/2500

 

 

291) African snipe

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f6.3, 1/2000

 

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 1000, f6.3, 1/3200

 

 

 

292) Yellow-billed duck

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 400, f6.3, 1/2000

 

 

293) Three-banded plover

[Tdgraves]

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 320, f7.1, 1/1600

 

 

 

294) Cape longclaw

[Tdgraves]

On the R545 outside of Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19 (had been standing in the road!!)

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 320, f7.1, 1/1250

 

 

295) Secretary bird

[Tdgraves]

And to the sighting of the day...

 

Zibulo bird hides, South Africa, 31/8/19

 

Canon 5D mark iv, 100-400 mm mark ii, ISO 640, f7.1, 1/2500

 

 

 

296) Black-headed heron

 

That's it from Zibulo. I counted 36 species in a few hours, some have been posted before and others I improved upon in KNP so will follow

[michael-ibk]

Very cool Heron photo - those were some very productive hide hours.

[Alex Rogers]

Love your heron! And some very cool photos from Zibulo. But I'm calling out 285 -  Glossy Ibis under EBC standards, I think you may have had a bit of mud on your protective filter

 

[Peter Connan]

Nice!

 

Take a careful look again, I saw some Lesser Flamingos too...

[Tdgraves]

7 minutes ago, Peter Connan said:

Nice!

 

Take a careful look again, I saw some Lesser Flamingos too...

 

Will have to do some serious cropping on the two shots I have for that @Peter Connan !

[xelas]

1 hour ago, Tdgraves said:

Will have to do some serious cropping

 

There is nothing wrong with cropping. I am sure that the files produced by 5DIV have plenty of room for that. You might try the Three-banded Plover and African Snipe, just to see the outcome.

 

Myself, I have been able to crop down to 1:1 (from 6000 pix to 1000 pix wide), and still not entering into EBC territory.

[Tdgraves]

On 9/24/2019 at 4:20 PM, Peter Connan said:

Nice!

 

Take a careful look again, I saw some Lesser Flamingos too...

 

@Peter Connan Unless I can convince you that 4th from the left is Lesser, from this extreme crop, then there is nothing else I can do...I have no clear shots of the bills

 

 

[Galana]

2 hours ago, Tdgraves said:

I can convince you that 4th from the left is Lesser,

Well you have convinced me.