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chris dees

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Uganda 2017
« on: October 23, 2017, 13:11:00 »
Last month we (4 persons) did a roundtrip in Uganda. This trip was already a long time high on my bucket list and this year it was my turn to choose. I'm glad the others could agree with my choice. ;D
We flew from Amsterdam via Kigali to Entebbe and arrived after midnight in our lodge.
The next morgen we had to get up early for our first tour. At 7:30 we left for a swamp-tour in the Mabamba Swamps west of Entebbe.
Our first goal was to find the Shoebill Stork, a prehistoric looking large (up to 1m 40cm and 6.5kg) bird. There're only between 5,000 and 8,000 birds left.
Although not many left we spotted 3 of them during our trip and this one was pretty close.
All with D500 + 200-500
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2017, 14:15:46 »
what a unique animal - never heared of it
thx a lot for showing
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2017, 15:16:21 »
you have overexposed this exotic bird to our community, thanks :)
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2017, 16:08:14 »
ein Schuhschnabel in German. We have one of these featured in a popular children's book
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2017, 16:22:20 »
They have wonderful feathers, I like the white rim, so elegant!
I had never heard of them either, thanks for showing them so nicely. The first image is close to perfect for me.
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2017, 17:22:10 »
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2017, 19:21:34 »
I've known about the shoebill stork, seen on TV, but never seen any images captured it in the wild.

Thanks for sharing, Chris, and hope you would share more from the trip!
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2017, 12:09:29 »
Indeed it looks prehistoric ;) Very well captured! Please show more from the trip ;)
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2017, 14:00:28 »
Thanks for the comments.
That bird is so ugly it looks beautiful again. :D

Spotted of course a lot of other birds.
Common Sandpiper, Black-headed, Lapwing, Malachite Kingfisher, Yellow-throated Bee-eater
The last two are 100% crops.
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2017, 14:29:00 »
This one was at a small fountain at our lodge.
Brown Weaver (not 100% sure) and Yellow-vented Bulbul
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2017, 21:58:27 »
Impressive images of the shoebill stork
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2017, 22:07:07 »
Great work. The connection in the first one is impressive. I enjoy the whole series.

Your birds look happy too. :D
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2017, 11:20:06 »
Very clean crisp images, funny Bird Spa image ;)
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2017, 17:47:33 »
Chris, the bird watcher, really nice 2nd set of images, esecially the bathing one :)
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Re: Uganda 2017
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2017, 20:13:34 »
You found Shoebills !!

How special was that?!

And you got a beautiful photograph of the Malachite Kingfisher — it's not easy to get close enough and to get an uncluttered view of those shy little birds.
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