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My trip to Kenya was mainly to see and photograph Mammals, but I ended up with more bird pics than mammals, here are some of the bird pics from my trip in September.
For birding, Samburu was very special of all the places I visited and favorite from this trip Tawny Eagle with Dik-dik kill. Here I tried my best to name the birds, feel free to comment if I named incorrectly.
Thanks for checking, comments and suggestions are appreciated as always.
Shibu






1: Tawny Eagle







2: Tawny Eagle







3: Tawny Eagle







4: African Fish Eagle







5: African Fish Eagle







6: African Fish Eagle







7: Bateleur







8: Purple Roller







9: Yellow-billed stork







10: Greater Flamingo







11: African Sacred Ibis







12: Superb Starling



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Nov 12, 2022 at 12:09 AM
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Few more....





13: Eastern chanting Goshawk







14: Von Der Decken's Hornbill







15: Verraux's Eagle Owl



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Nov 12, 2022 at 12:12 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Shibu - a really wonderful set of images. If I may suggest the following amendments to the names-
Black Headed Ibis = African Sacred Ibis
Starling = Superb Starling
Eagle Owls = Verraux's Eagle Owl

Very envious of the images.
Peter



Nov 12, 2022 at 01:25 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


1, 6 and 7 are favorites. Then I lost count as the titles don't' show when I have to drill in and run the slide show. The first has the stay away, it's mine look.

Morris



Nov 12, 2022 at 08:19 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Beautiful!


Nov 12, 2022 at 09:26 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Brilliant set.


Nov 12, 2022 at 10:01 AM
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simply superb Shibu. voted for sure


Nov 12, 2022 at 10:34 AM
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Lovely set of images.


Nov 12, 2022 at 10:42 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Fantastic set Shibu. Enjoyed all of them.

Greg



Nov 12, 2022 at 11:02 AM
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Amazing set !!! Each one is a treat.

Birdie



Nov 12, 2022 at 01:49 PM
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An enjoyable set of images. #6 is my top pic.
Jason



Nov 12, 2022 at 02:51 PM
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Your recent trip to Africa turned out to be similar to mine. We both focused more on capturing larger wildlife but ended up doing some bird photography, as well. Your exposure to bird seemed to be more often and more varied than what I experienced though. Good for you and they resulted in those wonderful images, Shibu! BTW, did you bring your 600mm lens on that trip?

Joshua



Nov 12, 2022 at 04:06 PM
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Oosty wrote:
Shibu - a really wonderful set of images. If I may suggest the following amendments to the names-
Black Headed Ibis = African Sacred Ibis
Starling = Superb Starling
Eagle Owls = Verraux's Eagle Owl

Very envious of the images.
Peter


Thanks Peter, really appreciated the comments with correct bird names.
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morris wrote:
1, 6 and 7 are favorites. Then I lost count as the titles don't' show when I have to drill in and run the slide show. The first has the stay away, it's mine look.

Morris


Thanks Morris
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Tollefsen wrote:
Beautiful!


Thanks!
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YEG-Photog wrote:
Brilliant set.


Thanks!
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kdacharya wrote:
simply superb Shibu. voted for sure


Thanks KD
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3Rotor wrote:
Lovely set of images.


Thanks!
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G.E. Smith wrote:
Fantastic set Shibu. Enjoyed all of them.

Greg


Thanks Greg
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birdied wrote:
Amazing set !!! Each one is a treat.

Birdie


Thanks Birdie
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jaylee73 wrote:
An enjoyable set of images. #6 is my top pic.
Jason


Thanks Jason
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AGeoJO wrote:
Your recent trip to Africa turned out to be similar to mine. We both focused more on capturing larger wildlife but ended up doing some bird photography, as well. Your exposure to bird seemed to be more often and more varied than what I experienced though. Good for you and they resulted in those wonderful images, Shibu! BTW, did you bring your 600mm lens on that trip?

Joshua


Thanks Joshua, there were lot of birds in Samburu, Naivasha, Mara and Nakuru.
Yes, I did take 600mm, other lens I used quite often there was the 70-200-ii, between those two lenses I was able to do more than 99% of my total images.



Nov 13, 2022 at 08:31 AM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Shibu this a great set of images. My trip a few years ago to Tanzania produced more mammals than birds and we saw many of the birds in your images, but I got none of the high quality captures that you got. Travelling these days with a 600 is really difficult especially when you have small hopper flights. I took a 500 F4, but honestly the quality of the images with that lens always seemed to have issues with heat waves. Most of my stuff was at 400 mm. I would love to go again.

dave



Nov 13, 2022 at 06:44 PM
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Dave_E wrote:
Shibu this a great set of images. My trip a few years ago to Tanzania produced more mammals than birds and we saw many of the birds in your images, but I got none of the high quality captures that you got. Travelling these days with a 600 is really difficult especially when you have small hopper flights. I took a 500 F4, but honestly the quality of the images with that lens always seemed to have issues with heat waves. Most of my stuff was at 400 mm. I would love to go again.

dave


Thanks Dave, I was surprised with variety of birds I saw, these are just less than third of I saw there and didn't include any birds from Mara, Nakuru and Amboseli.
It 's great if you can take a quality lens for Africa, but I don't know I want to do next time due to carrying and handling.

Shibu



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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Lovely set .. loved all of them


Nov 17, 2022 at 05:49 PM
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saaketham wrote:
Lovely set .. loved all of them


Thanks Anil



Nov 18, 2022 at 01:15 PM
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Shibu .....an exhilarating set of images no matter what you went to photograph you came home with multiple prizes of the subjects. Very nice presentation on the processing. I'm giving you my vote, you earned it sir!
If you wanted anything to think about, #9 could make for a nice vertical or a little less area on the right. #11 could be an interesting comp it you went tight on the left and gave room to the right perhaps? #14 perhaps is a big crop, just showing some artifacting in the lower area and has less detail than your other subjects, could also have been a huge influence from heat? None of these comments are to take away from the excellence in your presentation, just pushing you outside the box a little

Karl



Nov 18, 2022 at 03:02 PM
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Karl Witt wrote:
Shibu .....an exhilarating set of images no matter what you went to photograph you came home with multiple prizes of the subjects. Very nice presentation on the processing. I'm giving you my vote, you earned it sir!
If you wanted anything to think about, #9 could make for a nice vertical or a little less area on the right. #11 could be an interesting comp it you went tight on the left and gave room to the right perhaps? #14 perhaps is a big crop, just showing some artifacting in the lower area and has less detail than your other
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Thanks Karl, appreciate the feedback. Actually #9 my first action was a vertical crop, then I thought to include little bit of surroundings too. #14 is not much cropped, it is the heat haze.



Nov 21, 2022 at 07:38 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Just Birds, Kenya (Samburu and Naivasha), September 2022


Great set of images. Most of these were new to me. Thanks for sharing.

Jon



Nov 22, 2022 at 09:05 AM
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