Southern Carmine Bee-Eater

[Stu Bowie]

If this was a duck, it would have fitted the theme perfectly. I captured this in the Kruger National Park from my car, and positioned myself that the Bee-Eater was against a distant mountain, and not against a plain blue sky. I have purposely placed the BE centrally, as I wanted to show the end of the perch on the left, and to the right, the perch was getting a bit busy. Taken late afternoon.

Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 300mm F/2.8 +1.4 TC = 420mm
1/1600
F/6.3
ISO 800

Hand held from the car.