Orange Bishop by NightGallery

Photography • Animals • posted on Aug 17, 2008

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My wife originally soptted this guy on one of our walks at the local Wetlands. She said it was bright orange and looked like a 76 antenna ball..lol. When I finally found it a few seconds later, I was blown away! We generally don't have this brightly colored type of birds around here in So Cal in the wild. [and it seems this one really should be in Africa, but due to pet escapes, they are now making So Cal a new home!] So I went back and got some photos of this guy a week or so ago. The ones I got back then were from quite a distance and not to clear. After seeing him again and again on my evening walks at the small wetlands, I decided that I was going to make a mission to get a good photo of him. So early morning this week I went out and trekked off the trail (I know, I know.. bad!) and climbed/hiked to the other side of the water (the side he seemed to prefer) to try to capture this fella. Finally after 2.5 hours I got some decent shots. And just as I was about done letting my camera shot off as many shots as the memory card could handle in a row, the sprinklers came on! I didn't get soaked, but it did cause me to have to move my camera bag and then the bishop took off. But alas I got the photos and here is one of them. Thanks for looking. Check out FULL SIZE. For some info on this AFRICAN bird, here is a link. Orange Bishophref>

Comments (19)

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Mondwin

3:02PM | Sun, 17 August 2008

WOW...sooooo a beautiful creature....bravissimo!:DDD.Hugsxx

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Virtual_World

3:04PM | Sun, 17 August 2008

Gorgeous!!!

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rocserum

3:19PM | Sun, 17 August 2008

The enlarged version is outragious, your expedition trough nature pays realy of. Thats the way to get inspired! I hope you get more of these days, enjoying nature with your camera. (So we can enjoy them to) RS

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ACS-001

3:32PM | Sun, 17 August 2008

Wow, what lovely composition with all those reeds! Great contrast between the red on the bird's feathers and the green background, too. I'm glad you got so close, I know how difficult it is getting close to a bird (and the ones around here are tame). Awesome shot.

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