ODKF with Cricket

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Oriental dwarf kingfisher with a cricket to feed its chick. From the west coast of India.
1DX II
700mm
1/500
f/7.1
ISO 3200

[Bill Dix]

Sweet shot, with beautiful colors, nice BG and a great prey.

[Colin Driscoll]

Another great shot following on from the previous lizard one. Being picky, a less lumpy, more interesting perch would improve the shot. Is the perch supplied or natural?

[Daniel Cadieux]

How cool! Excellent prey item. Good profile pose, and great colours. So-so perch, and I am not in love with the upper left corner, but overall the image works very well!

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful bird, nicely shown. Vivid colors, as Dan wrote " cool prey item". I might try opening the shadows a bit, without trying and looking at the image hard to tell if it would improve the image. Thank you for sharing, Sanjeev.

[Aditya Sridhar]

Agreed with all the comments above. Beautiful shot and well spotted!

[John Mack]

Looks great overall. Like the prey item of course. The perch i dont' mind. Neat looking bird.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Looks good to me Sanjeev, I don't mind the imperfections, it looks like nature is to me. you could lift the darker area around the primaries a teeny weeny bit and just a little more DOF wouldn't go amiss but I like it as it is.

[arash_hazeghi]

this one is the best of the series, love everything but the perch and wish you had posted this one larger

TFS