European Kingfisher ( F )

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi folks ... the lady was succesful as you can see , i needed time to get used to her behavior ... if she is going to fish or not and if she come back with the fish .
So it was a lot of excitement involved on my side , plus the lady decided to pose slightly angled away from me most of the times . Sometimes she gave a gorgeous headturn ... to counteract her " bad posing " . I am for sure going back , hopefully with better light and i do ask the owner to prepare the perch a bit different .

Canon EOS R3
EF 200 - 400 IS L at 400 mm
Tripod

F 4,0 ; Iso 4000 ; 1/1000 sec

Processed with DPP 4 and PSCC 2023 ; cropped for comp to about 75 % of FF

THanks for looking and commenting to my previous postings

Cheers Andreas

[Jack Backs]

Very nice image. No nits from me other than wishing the tail of the fish was perpendicular.

[Dorian Anderson]

Very nice! And cleaner than your previous frame because detail at ISO 4000 is better than at 12,800! Must be nice to have someone set the perch up for you - all you gotta do is show up!

[Andreas Liedmann]

- all you gotta do is show up!

Yes .... and pay for the perch service

[Andreas Liedmann]

THanks Jack and Dorian fro your comments , much appreciated .

@ Jack .... sorry that the fish posed badly

@ Dorian ... will try to get the same IQ from 12800 and higher . I have tons of images from that shoot .... but i have too sort out a ton .

Cheers Andreas

[Daniel Cadieux]

I suppose you could always bring him a perch and hope he agrees to set it up for you! Having said this, it is not all that bad. I love how this species seems to have a streak of blue hair down the back!

Sounds like a good spot - I'd be going back a few times as well!