Secretary Bird

[Ken Watkins]

We had a wonderful sighting of Secretary Birds building their nest in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, 22nd June 2011.

This is the male taking some rather comfy looking grasses to the nest, he was later rewarded.

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 IS hand-held through pop up roof of our vehicle

F6.3, ISO 800, 1/6400

[Harshad Barve]

touch more space on top if you have , love it Ken
TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

Wow that is quite the decoration this guy is bringing home! I like the included habitat at bottom. I agree with more canvas above, and the sharpening looks to be on the agressive side.

[Karl Egressy]

I have never seen one posted in flight. Excellent picture. Great angle and the nesting material adds to it.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Ken, I like how you have captured the secretary bird in the sky part of your BG, and another well done for including the grasses below. Good flying posture, and certainly a beak full to carry home.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice action shot and I lkie the habitat on the bottom. I agree about more room.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent love the details and the nesting material, would consider adding more room to the top

[Ken Watkins]

Sorry everybody, I posted the unfinished version of this, thanks for pointing out the lack of room at the top.