Female Belted Kingfisher.

[Karl Egressy]

I checked out a small pond five minutes drive from where I live. I was expecting Ducks and was ready to take flight shots. No Ducks but located a Kingfisher by sound. I used my car as a blind.
This is a large crop, couldn't get any closer.
I intend to set up a blind of she keeps coming back.
I removed one small branch running right beside the bird and the shadow of it from the bird.
Critiques are welcomed.

Canon 50D
Canon 300 f2.8 L IS 2.0x TC
ISO 250
f 8.0
1/800 sec

[Bob Malbon]

Large crop or not it is a sweet image! BKFs are about the hardest to get near. I once set a blind in the dark and by the time the sun was on the "dive" zone time the the KF was full of breakfast and sat on a wire grooming! Good luck and post you captures!! Bob

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice simple KF image with a good basic comp. Tough to get close to, and the large crop is starting to show here. I like the thin perch, but I'm not crazy about the taller vertical twig. Hope your project with these guys (gals) turns out succesfully!!

[Kim Rollins]

Nice image of what has been in my experience a difficult one to capture.

Personally I would trim some vertical twigs in post.

[Stu Bowie]

Cute little guy. Our kingfishers over here with those colours are our giant kingfishers, the largest species of KF, and certainly much bigger than this little fellow. Comp wise, I would take a bit off the bottom to where the branch comes intothe image.