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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Madikwe, SA
Posts: 466
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Hornbill, Babbler and Barbet
Birds around at the moment:
The Crested Barbet (Paint factory explosion colouration with a permanent bad hair day)
Southern Pied Babbler (Real characters, they roam around in a group like a bunch of noisy, destructive schoolkids, digging everything up, throwing everything they can over, all the time shouting away on the top of their voices.)
Yellow-Billed Hornbill. (Very common, these guys get very tame really fast and will learn to take food from your hand in a few days. They eat anything and anything they can cram down their gullets.)
Thanks for looking!
The Crested Barbet (Paint factory explosion colouration with a permanent bad hair day)
Southern Pied Babbler (Real characters, they roam around in a group like a bunch of noisy, destructive schoolkids, digging everything up, throwing everything they can over, all the time shouting away on the top of their voices.)
Yellow-Billed Hornbill. (Very common, these guys get very tame really fast and will learn to take food from your hand in a few days. They eat anything and anything they can cram down their gullets.)
Thanks for looking!
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Kit 1 Canon 7D Canon EF 70-200 2.8 L IS USM Canon EF 17-40mm 1:4 |
Kit 2 Canon 40D Canon EF 100-400 1:4.5-5.6 L IS Canon Macro EF 100mm1:2.8 USM |
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Kolossi, Cyprus
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Brilliant set of images - and your lens stays very sharp even at full reach. keep them coming.
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: uk/usa
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Great set, and the first bird looks like he couldn't make up his mind what colour to be, very unusual
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Leicestershire, UK
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Really nice set there, impressed. 
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 1,737
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Really nice, love the colours in the first bird, stunning.
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Kit 1 Canon 450D |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Norfolk, UK
Posts: 2,615
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Great images. 1 and 5 are my favourites.
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Kit 1 Canon 550D Canon 50mm 1.8 Sigma 30mm 1.4 on loan: Tamron 90mm |
Kit 2 Canon 300D (in use by my 10 year old) |
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My Compact/P&S: broken |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: South Wales, UK
Posts: 15,385
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Wow, love these 
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Kit 1 Nikon D300 Nikon 55-200mm VR |
Kit 2 Nikon D40 Nikon 18-55mm |
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My Compact/P&S: Panasonic Lumix TZ7 |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Truro, Cornwall UK
Posts: 939
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Great shots again - I think 5 is my fave 
- no C&C from me I'm afraid.
- no C&C from me I'm afraid.
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Kit 1 Sony a700 Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 |
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My Compact/P&S: Sony DSC-W35 |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Perthshire Scotland
Posts: 8,168
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More great shots. Nice and sharp - amazing colours too.
I think the first and last are my favourites.
I think the first and last are my favourites.
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Kit 1 Canon 1D Mark 3 Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II |
Kit 2 1D2 & 40D |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Worcestershire
Posts: 205
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Fabulous pictures! You SAers have brilliant names for your birds lol! The best pic I've got of SA birds, though, is of an LBJ called a Neddicky sitting on a prickly pear!
Becky
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Kit 1 Canon 350D Canon EFS 18-55mm Canon 75-300mm Canon Macro Lens EFS 60mm |
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