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Kingfisher
Kingfisher who posed for me for a few seconds outside the aptly named "Kingfisher Hide" at Fingringhoe Nature reserve. Clear background is OOF water.

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Habitat
Wetlands
Location
Essex Wildlife Trust Fingringhoe Nature Reserve
Date taken
31/10/20
Scientific name
alcedo atthis
Equipment used
Canon R6 + Canon RF 800mm f/11
Shutter speed, aperture & ISO
1/1000 sec, f/11, 800 ISO
Lovely picture of this male Kingfisher. Sometimes all it takes is a few seconds to get a fantastic photograph. It's the several hours usually involved in waiting for the few seconds that makes the fun ;-)
Thanks for sharing.
 
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A beautiful Kingfisher and very impressive close-up showing marvelous detail and colors. Excellent Stuart!
 
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What a wonderful start you've made to your Gallery with this lovely Kingfisher!!!

A fine image indeed - many thanks for showing it to us Stuart
 
a fine start to your images my friend...excellent...well done and many thanks... (y)
 

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Category
Britain & Europe
Added by
StuartR1953
Date added
View count
115
Comment count
7

Image metadata

Device
Canon Canon EOS R6
Aperture
ƒ/11
Focal length
800.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1000
ISO
800
Filename
_H4A2960_DxO.jpg
File size
1.6 MB
Date taken
Mon, 12 October 2020 12:15 PM
Dimensions
2400px x 1600px

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