Avian, Captive and Hand of Man IOTW 05/30/2008 Brutus Ostling

[James Shadle]

Congratulations Brutus Ostling!
Delievery - hoopoe male earns his female

The male delievered regularly, between two and four-five times per hour, most in the morning. (I have posted backlit hoopoes in the Europe-thread, see below.)
This photo will probably not do for my book this autumn, but chapter one shall be about the three important things for a male bird who wants to attract and keep a female happy: To be beautiful, strong and rich! (Rich is of course a metaphor.)

The nest is an old used cement round thing used for ditches when you wanr the ditch to go under a road (can't come up with an English word for it). Therefor hand of man.

[Fabs Forns]

Killer image, Brutus, well deserved!

[Julie Kenward]

Great action shot and the lighting is beautiful!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Brutus!

[Pat Nighswander]

Amazing shot.. great light and details.. congradualitions

[Lana Hays]

Congrats, Brutus...this one is a real winner.

[Grady Weed]

I love this bird! Colorful, wings down clean eye, smooth background, bug in the beak, and that hairdo. The subject alone makes this one for me. I did not care too much for the log, but the bird makes up for it by far! Well deserved IOTW.

[Alfred Forns]

Unbelievable image Brutus !!!!

[Robert Amoruso]

Impressive capture Brutus.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Congratulations Brutus Ostling!

[Brutus Ostling]

And the photo made its way into the book. I liked it better after a while, it tells a story.

[Brutus Ostling]

Many t:Dhanks for the greetings, I tried to say below. Something fell away.

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations...:cool: