Pieter de Waal
10-21-2010, 04:46 PM
80598
Spent three exciting mornings in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park trying to get flight photographs of these pigeon sized birds. They fly in from the surrounding sand dunes about 2hrs after sunrise, circling the waterhole gathering birds as they circle, eventually descending in flocks of up to 100 birds and more. Males will immerse and absorb water in their chest feathers to take to their chicks who could be up to 60km away. It gets even more exciting when the resident Lanner Falcons start hunting the Doves and Sandgrouse around the waterhole.
50D/EF500f4+1.4/f8@1/2500/iso800/EC+0.33 - removed an oof bird behind this one.
Spent three exciting mornings in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park trying to get flight photographs of these pigeon sized birds. They fly in from the surrounding sand dunes about 2hrs after sunrise, circling the waterhole gathering birds as they circle, eventually descending in flocks of up to 100 birds and more. Males will immerse and absorb water in their chest feathers to take to their chicks who could be up to 60km away. It gets even more exciting when the resident Lanner Falcons start hunting the Doves and Sandgrouse around the waterhole.
50D/EF500f4+1.4/f8@1/2500/iso800/EC+0.33 - removed an oof bird behind this one.