Lunch!

One of our resident yellow-vented bulbuls getting ready to lunch on a juicy morsel.

This shot was taken using my new Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. The bird was about 20 metres away and the image has been cropped in LR. I am blown away by the quality of this lens in combination with the Canon 90D and its 32Mpx sensor.

1/1000 at f8 ISO 800

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (Melaenornis Fischeri). This race of the species has a particularly conspicuous broad eye-ring and is found in Kenya and parts of Uganda and Tanzania. (Ref. Birds of East Africa: Stevenson & Fanshawe; a truly excellent book). This one popped up in a garden in Nanyuki, Kenya some years ago.  

Excuse me!

Shot many moons ago in a garden setting at Lolamaric, Laikipia in Kenya, a male Cordon-bleu bird seems to be getting the brush-off from his partner.

Canon EOS 1D MkII with Canon EF 300m f2.8 prime and Canon 1.4x extender. ISO 500 1/125 at f4.5

Tasty Treat

A female golden palm weaver brings a grub to the nest building party. All a bit one-sided really since the male does all the work of building the most beautiful spherical nest while the missus looks on. Not sure if she passed this tasty tidbit onto the male or whether she munched on it reflectively. I do know that she ultimately rejected the nest that took two days of hard work to build.

Shot in Kilifi on the Kenya coast many years ago using my old Canon 1D MkII and EF 300mm f2.8 prime lens. Recently retweaked in LR.

Cape Robin-chat 2

Another shot of this inquisitive little bird, this time checking out the local scene from the advantage of a branch more commonly perched on by one of the many common fiscal shrikes around the place.

Canon 90D with Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS STM lens at 250mm ISO 4000 1/1000 at f8