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Let me share first set of pictures of some birds with you. Some of these are heavy crop, others are less. I wish I had a prime lens and enough time to do justice to these magnificent birds. Sometimes light was harsh. And, my limited experience ...

As always, I will appreciate your C&C. If I get chance to go back to Africa, your tips will help me a lot.

1. Let me start with one of the most beautiful birds, the lilac breasted roller. This was almost noon, and the light was terribly bright. Only good thing was that this bird was about 15 feet from our vehicle.

http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/LilacBreastedRoller.jpg

2. One of the most abundant birds in East Africa is the starling. This is Superb Starling.

http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/SuperbStarling.jpg

3. Superb Starling http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/SuperbStarling2.jpg

4. Superb Starling http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/SuperbStarling3.jpg

5. Similar to Superb Starling are Hildebrandt's Starling
http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/HildbrandtStarling.jpg

6. Hildebrandt's Starling
http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/HildbrandtStarling1.jpg

7. Red and Yellow Barbet. I think we saw it only a few times.

http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/RedYellowBarbet.jpg

8. Crowned Plover. They were fairly common
http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/CrownedPlover.jpg

9.African Harrier Hawk. This bird was busy hunting and was quite difficult to get a decent shot through the tall grasses.

http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/AfricanHarrierHawk.jpg

10. http://mansurahmad.com/Photos/AfricanHarrierHawk1.jpg

Thanks for your patience for looking at these.

~Mansur





Aug 11, 2016 at 09:53 PM
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A very nice set Mansur. 3 and 4 stand out ~ Ron


Aug 11, 2016 at 10:20 PM
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surfnron wrote:
A very nice set Mansur. 3 and 4 stand out ~ Ron


Thank you Ron.



Aug 12, 2016 at 12:58 AM
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Sounds like an awesome trip, good work on number 3 and 9 thanks for sharing!


Aug 12, 2016 at 06:17 AM
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Stephen-Jay wrote:
Sounds like an awesome trip, good work on number 3 and 9 thanks for sharing!


Thank you. Yes, it was indeed an awesome trip




Aug 12, 2016 at 08:34 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Birds of East Africa: Set 1 of ?? (image Heavy:10 pictures)


Lovely set For some reason Nos.7-10 seem to be absent - have they been edited out by webmaster as too many? What lenses/bodies did you use?
Niall
And now all ten images have magically appeared!



Aug 12, 2016 at 09:21 AM
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Niall,

Between our son and me, we had three bodies, 5D3, 7DII and 70D. Our daughter carried a Panasonic FZ300, and she mainly recorded video clips at 4K. Our lenses were 100-400II, almost always mounted to 5D3 and Sigma 150-600 Contemporary almost always on 7DII. We had a 24-105 mounted on 70D. A few times, I tried using 1.4x TC with my 100-400. It just slowed me down as it kept on hunting for focus. During last several days, I gave up on the TC. Cropping images were a better option than using the TC in my experience.

Thanks for the comments on the pictures.

Which national parks are you planning to visit?



Aug 12, 2016 at 09:35 AM
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We're landing at Arusha Tarangire (2 days), Lake Manyara (1 day), Ngorongoro (1 day), Serengeti (circa 3 days ) then a week on Zanzibar. I can't decide at present between taking my 7D2+100-400 II and my 5D3 with 24-105 or my 1Dx + 24-105 and 1Dx2 + 100-400 II (+or- 1.4x extender) At the moment the 1Dx/1DxII is front runner but I may change my mind.


Aug 12, 2016 at 09:51 AM
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Awesome set! (y)



Aug 12, 2016 at 12:26 PM
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Tony Admana wrote:
Awesome set! (y)


Thank you Tony.



Aug 12, 2016 at 11:21 PM
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I think you did great! I find them clean and colorful with pleasing backgrounds. In the 'busier' shots, I think the included vegetation adds value to the subjects.

Nicely done; thanks for sharing this set!

--Kim



Aug 13, 2016 at 05:47 AM
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Lovley set Mansur

Morris



Aug 13, 2016 at 07:54 AM
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Great variety Mansur. Many fine shots.


Aug 13, 2016 at 08:31 AM
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wonderer wrote:
I think you did great! I find them clean and colorful with pleasing backgrounds. In the 'busier' shots, I think the included vegetation adds value to the subjects.

Nicely done; thanks for sharing this set!

--Kim


Kim,

Thanks for the comment.

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morris wrote:
Lovley set Mansur

Morris


Morris,

Thanks for stopping by.

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Ted ellis wrote:
Great variety Mansur. Many fine shots.


Ted,

Appreciate your comments.




Aug 19, 2016 at 04:05 PM
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What a marvelous trip you must have enjoyed ! Lovely set .

Birdie



Aug 19, 2016 at 08:28 PM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Birds of East Africa: Set 1 of ?? (image Heavy:10 pictures)


Very nice set Mansur. Most of them look very familiar as I just got home from East Africa yesterday.

Mr.Gale



Aug 19, 2016 at 08:35 PM
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Mr.Gale wrote:
Very nice set Mansur. Most of them look very familiar as I just got home from East Africa yesterday.

Mr.Gale


Welcome back. Hope to see more from you.



Aug 20, 2016 at 08:05 AM





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