Cape Glossy Starling

[Stu Bowie]

Early morning light in the Pilanesberg nature reserve. Usually on this this perch, we would see a kingfisher beating his fish - notice all the left over scales. Something different from one of my favourate birding spots.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1600
F/5.6
ISO 800

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand held

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Stu, terrirific iridescence captured.....and about the BG..well...what can be said? stunning. eye color matching with the color in BG is superb stuff.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

killer bg,eye contact!!!

[denise ippolito]

Stuart, Beautiful, beautiful BG colors, nice pose and I like the explanation of the perch.

[Jim Crosswell]

A real beauty Stuart! I like the BG and eye on this one.

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely pose and BG, Stu. Did you do any BG blurring? - the far end of the perch looks a little funky.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely pose and BG, Stu. Did you do any BG blurring? - the far end of the perch looks a little funky.

Thanks Tony. I can see where you mean. I processed this a while ago, but didnt have to do any thing to the BG. It doesnt look right does it. ( drove past Rigel Ave this afternoon - brought back memories ;) )

[Tony Whitehead]

( drove past Rigel Ave this afternoon - brought back memories ;) )

Cheers, Stu. Finally got around to printing and framing my favourite GK, PK and MK from the day - fond memories:)

[Daniel Cadieux]

Man, the bird's plumage against the BG's warm tones is fabulous. Love the feet and the eye! Head maybe turned a bit too much - I wonder if the light caught the lower part of face nicely when turned less. Awesome image in any case.

[Stu Bowie]

Thank you all for the kind words. Always appreciated.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Fantastic stuff..Light and BG are awesome bud