01 September 2016

Elusive Malachite Kingfisher at Woodbridge Island, Cape Town

Record shots of Woodbridge Island's only / elusive Malachite Kingfisher
Very happy to know we have at least one Malachite Kingfisher at Woodbridge Island. Very far out perched on the side of the old wooden bridge and lately in the Woodbridge Island / Milnerton Lagoon section of the Table Bay Nature Reserve


Added a second image of the Malachite Kingfisher after spotting him during my latest Birds in Flight Photography Workshop practical at Woodbridge Island.

Update: Elusive Malachite Kingfisher in Flight (Table Bay Nature Reserve) 

Malachite Kingfisher in the Table Bay Nature Reserve - Woodbridge Island
I was hiking with a few delegates from my Birds in Flight Photography workshop when we spotted the Malachite perched in a dead tree across the Diep River. Image by Vernon Chalmers with Canon EOS 7D Mark II / Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. (Av Mode: f6.3 / ISO 125 / 1/500s (Handheld).


Malachite Kingfisher in the Table Bay Nature Reserve - Woodbridge Island
Malachite Kingfisher - Table Bay Nature Reserve / Woodbridge Island

Malachite Kingfisher on the wooden bridge - Woodbridge Island

Only spotted him three times before over the last couple of months before this stalked opportunity. Image by Vernon Chalmers with Canon EOS 7D Mark II / Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. (Manual Mode: f6.3 / ISO 800 / 1/5000s (Handheld).

Malachite Kingfisher on the wooden bridge - Woodbridge Island
Malachite Kingfisher - Wooden Bridge / Woodbridge Island