Sacred Kingfisher

[den]

Exhausted after his migration from New Guinea. Rehab and released.

Comments

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

He grabbed my glove so tightly I simply took it off and placed it on the floor to get the photos. He was happy to hang on and not fly. (For "cranky" values of happy.)

I don't have an aviary so I couldn't put him in there, and if I did he'd vanish into the greenery.

[sanderling.livejournal.com]

At least it was your glove and not your finger! His beak looks like it could do some damage.

I doubt even if you could devise some sort of naturalistic perch to photograph the birds on, that they'd cooperate and sit nicely on said perch while photographs were taken. Birds (and wild animals in general) being who they are.

What sort of a camera do you use to take these pictures?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's a Canon EOS 50E with a 35-80mm zoom. A local film processing shop does a direct negative-to-CD transfer, so the quality of the jpegs is really nice. Only have to crop and resize the photos.

[sanderling.livejournal.com]

Pretty nice camera! Someday I'd like to get myself something spiffy like that, for wildlife and nature shots. In the meantime I buy what I can afford. The digital prints CD is very handy. I know you can get that done around here but haven't looked into it (mostly because, with a digital camera of my own, there hasn't been much need).