Category: Birds
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Penguins on YouTube
A nice little video about penguins, found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/nBzF8pXSnx0Â The next one, titled “Do penguins fly?“, is a special offer for photo amateurs. Wildlife photo may be difficult in some cases: http://www.youtube.com/v/EnlCz1P95WM
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Photo deer hunting during the rutting season
Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image. Maybe you thought this deer was belling in rut; But no! He’s just bored to death during a photo session near the park border and he’s merely yawning. Some of you may have noticed the lack of updates in the recent days. Apart from some personal unforecasted…
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Images of the day – Visit to the park
Today, I took a few hours to test my new tele-lens Minolta 300mm f/4. Those few images were taken in the Park of the Castle of Grouchy in the middle of the day while I was looking for little birds (I never caught): Finally, here are some very static images from the underbrush.
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Buffalo colourful airstrip
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Masai Mara – Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus are large herbivorous from the same family as the horse. they seem quite peaceful but have a lot of available energy (and a considerable mass). Even if it is possible to encounter them out of water during the day, they prefer to avoid sun shine (they risk dying from sun exposure) and only eat…
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Masai Mara – Grey heron
Grey Heron, Mara river
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Masai Mara – Birds, too
The Masai Mara park hosts not only felines (I went there specially to watch them) and their preys (all kinds of antelopes), but also a large number of birds of all kinds. Travelling with Alain Saunier, reknowned ornithologist photographer, and with some other bird watchers allowed to stop and contemplate some very colourful (or less…