I f0ollowed the wrong link, which led to an excellent image of a swallowtail.
I found the pigeon without much trouble, and it is certainly better than average. Nice capture in its environment. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 12:12 PM Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > Late this afternoon while I was gardening, a large flock of Green Wood > Pigeons visited a Fig tree overhanging my carport. Now, these are very > difficult birds to photograph because they are very skittish & will > explode out of the tree if disturbed. I slowly crept into the house to > get my camera & slowly crept as close as I could get (about 20m). Most > of the birds were in the middle of the tree but I managed to find a > couple exposed in the weak sunshine. I then slowly backed off & put my > camera back in the house before returning to pack away the garden tools. > Then it happened - with much commotion the whole flock shot out of the > tree in all directions. The Afrikanns name for this bird is Papagaaiduif > (Parrot Dove) for obvious reasons. This is the pick of a bunch of > average shots: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/49760698771/ > > K5 & Sigma 170-500 DG @ 500mm f8 1/2000sec ISO 3200 H/H > > > Alan C > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
