Between all the rainy days forecasted for this week today was probably the best weather and light of the week. I only left my studio after 10:00 due the poor light and some cloud cover.
The weather (and the light) cleared up quite nicely by the time I got down the Diep River, Woodbridge Island on my usual walk down to the Table Bay Nature Reserve. During the walk I was fortunate to observe and photograph the rare (for here) purple heron. There was a pair, but I only mange to get an extreme long range shot of one of them.
I was greeted with all the usual birds with lots of common starlings around. I manage to capture a few Cape cormorants and eventually walked to the reserve. Here I saw many Cape spurfowls, yellow-billed ducks, Southern masked weavers and a few grey herons. On my return I photographed the 'sprinting' common moorhen along the Diep River and one of the two resident pied crows.
The highlight in the reserve - and my morning - was the successful stalking of the fidgety Karoo prinea - a rare small bird for me down here. I've only seen them a couple of times in the last ten years around this area.
Birds of the morning:
Cape Town Location
Table Bay Nature Reserve Woodbridge Island, Milnerton
Canon Camera / Lens Settings
Post-Processing
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 9.4: Cropping. Colour correction / noise reduction / lens profile correction
- Purple heron
- Karoo prinea
- Common moorhen
- Cape cormorant
- Pied crow
Cape Town Location
Table Bay Nature Reserve Woodbridge Island, Milnerton
Canon Camera / Lens Settings
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II Body
- EF 400mm f/5.6L USM Lens
- Manual Mode: Auto-ISO: 400 - 800
- Aperture: f/5.6
- Shutter Speed: 1/1000 - 1/3200
- AI Servo: Case 1: Wide Zone
- 10 fps High Speed Continuous Mode
- Handheld
Post-Processing
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC 9.4: Cropping. Colour correction / noise reduction / lens profile correction
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Karoo Prinia Table Bay Nature Reserve Woodbridge Island |
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Common Moorhen Sprinting Diep River Woodbridge Island |
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Cape Cormorant in Flight Diep River Woodbridge Island |
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Pied Crow in Flight Diep River Woodbridge Island |
Birds in Flight Photography Cape Town View
Bird Species Woodbridge Island, Cape Town View
Canon Photography Training Milnerton Woodbridge Island | Kirstenbosch Cape Town
Canon Photography Training Milnerton Woodbridge Island | Kirstenbosch Cape Town