Collared Kingfisher Funny Gestures

This morning at Byram, I managed to get multiple shots of funny gesture of the Collared Kingfisher. The series of shots were captured using the Canon 1 D mk3 and EF 600 F4 IS. I was too near to the subject so I have to take off my 1.4 TC.

Must be heavy breakfast, clearing the stomach before taking a bath, ha ha ha.................. :)

Drying the feather, after dipping itself into the river

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Wild Bird of the Week (week 42)

This week I am featuring the Chestnut-Headed Bee Eater as the wild bird of the week, in conjunction with one of my photo winning the Photo Malaysia ( http://www.photomalaysia.com ) August monthly competition. The winning photo featuring a pair of fighting Chestnut-Headed Bee Eater.

Chestnut-Headed Bee Eaters are the winter visitors to the Peninsula Malaysia and start to migrate here from Dec and returning to its breeding ground on March. This photo was captured on Feb 2009 using the Canon 5 D mk2 with the EF 600 mm IS F4 at a open scrubland in Penang Malaysia. I shot this photo from my car using a bean bag and positioned my equipments on the bean bag.

Species Name: Chestnut-Headed Bee Eater, 栗头蜂虎, チャガシラハチクイ (茶頭蜂喰)
Scientific Name: M.leschenaulti 21.5 cm
Habitat: Open Broadleaved evergreen forest and coastal scrub.
Altitude: Up to 1830 meter
Photo captured at: Penanti, Penang, Malaysia
5 D mk2, EF 600 mm F4 IS 1.4 TC
1/1600s f/8.0 at 840.0mm iso800

(Theme: Fighting) This photo won the monthly Photo Malaysia competition

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Little Egret

I like to photograph Little Egret due to its snowy white color feather. I have a high tendency to over-expose on the white color feather, so I always have to reduce the expose using the Lightroom (LR) and increase the "recovery" in order to get the deatil out of the snowy white feather. Here are the 2 comparison photos:

Post-processed using LR 2.3 by reducing exposure and increase recovery 

Pre-processed

"Standing-tall" on the coastal wet land 

Flight of the Little Egret:

Canon 1 D mk3 EF 600 F4 IS with 1.4 TC Gitzo Carbon Fiber Tripod

Wimberley 2 Gimba Head, AF: AI Servo Mode

ISO 640 F8 1/500

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Wild Bird of the Week (week 41)

I will post here a species of wild bird from my image bank weekly. I will call it "Wild Bird of the week". This week I am featuring here a species called Silver-breasted Broadbill.

Species Name: Silver-breasted Broadbill, 银胸丝冠鸟, ギンムネヒロハシ (銀胸広嘴)
Scientific Name: Serilophus lunatus 17 cm
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Eurylaimidae
Habitat: Broadleaved evergreen forest.
Altitude: 50 to 2200 meter
Photo captured at: Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia
1 D mk3 EF 600 mm F4 IS 1.4 TC